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Frank Shorter
American long-distance runner (born 1947)
Frank Charles Shorter (born October 31, 1947) is an American former long-distance runner who won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics and the silver medal at the 1976 Summer Olympics.
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His Olympic success, along with the achievements of other American runners, is credited with igniting the running boom in the United States during the 1970s.[2][3][4][5][6]
Early life and education
Frank Shorter was born in Munich, Germany, where his father, physician Samuel S.
Shorter, served in the U.S. Army. He grew up in Middletown, New York, where a street was named in his honor (Frank Shorter Way). Frank Shorter Way was formerly part of the Orange Classic 10K course route, which Shorter won in its inaugural race in 1981.[7] After earning his high school diploma from the Mount Hermon School in Gill, Massachusetts, in 1965, Shorter graduated from Yale U