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Website. www .nyrr .org. New York Road Runners ( NYRR) is a non-profit running organization based in New York City whose mission is to help and inspire people through running. It was founded in 1958 by Ted Corbitt with 47 members and has since grown to a membership of more than 60,000. As of 2012, it was considered to be the premier running ...
Grete Waitz, the Norwegian long-distance runner, set a new course record for women at 2:32:30 to win the first of a record nine New York Marathons. The New York Road Runners club annually sponsors "Grete's Great Gallop," a 10 kilometer race around the Central Park loop, in her honor. [citation needed]
1978. The Abebe Bikila Award is an annual prize given by the New York Road Runners club (NYRR) to honour individuals who have made a significant contribution to the sport of long-distance running. The first recipient of the award was Ted Corbitt, a founder of both NYRR and the Road Runners Club of America, who received the honour on October 27 ...
New York Road Runners The couple that runs together, stays together! Amy Robach and T.J. Holmes completed the 2023 RBC Brooklyn Half Marathon. Robach, 50, and Holmes, 45, ran the race side-by-side ...
Ted Corbitt. Ted Corbitt (January 31, 1919 – December 12, 2007) [ 2][ 3][ 4] was an American long-distance runner. The first African-American to run the marathon at the Summer Olympics (the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki, Finland) and the founding president of New York Road Runners, Corbitt is often called "the father of American long distance ...
Fred Lebow (June 3, 1932 – October 9, 1994), born Fischel Lebowitz, was a Holocaust survivor, runner, race director, and founder of the New York City Marathon.Born in Arad, Romania, he presided over the transformation of the race from one with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of the largest marathons in the world with more than 52,000 finishers in 2018.
Mary Wittenberg (née Robertson; born July 17, 1962) is an American sports executive who formerly served as president of professional women's soccer club NJ/NY Gotham FC.She was previously the president of the EF Education–EasyPost cycling team, and president and chief executive officer of New York Road Runners (NYRR) through May 18, 2015.
Hirsch was founding publisher of New York, New Times, and The Runner magazines. He also was publisher of Runner’s World, the first publishing director of Men's Health, and the publisher of La Cucina Italiana. He was the chairman of the board of New York Road Runners from 2005 until June 2023, when he became chairman emeritus.