1 USA Frank Shorter 2:12:19,8 h
2 BEL Karel Lismont 2:14:31,8 h
3 ETH Mamo Wolde 2:15:08,4 h
Frank Shorter (* 31. Oktober 1947 in München) ist ein ehemaliger US-amerikanischer Langstreckenläufer und Olympiasieger.
Shorter war der dominierende Marathonläufer der frühen 1970er Jahre und gewann von 1970 bis 1973 viermal in Folge den Fukuoka-Marathon. Beim Marathonlauf der Olympischen Sommerspiele 1972 in seiner Geburtsstadt München setzte er sich schon auf der ersten Streckenhälfte vom Rest des Feldes ab und gewann mit über zwei Minuten Vorsprung die Goldmedaille.
Bei seinem Zieleinlauf stahl ihm ein Schüler die Show, der mit selbstgemalter Startnummer die Absperrungen überwand und kurz vor ihm ins Stadion einlief, wo er von den Zuschauern zunächst für den führenden Läufer gehalten wurde, bis ihn die Sicherheitskräfte zu dem Zeitpunkt abführten, als Shorter ins Stadion einlief.
Bei den Spielen 1976 in Montreal musste sich Shorter nur Waldemar Cierpinski geschlagen geben und gewann die Silbermedaille.
Shorter first achieved distinction by winning the 1969 National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) 10,000 meter title during his senior year at Yale. He won his first U.S. national titles in 1970 in the 5000 meter and 10,000 meter events. He also was the U.S. national 10,000 meter champion in 1971, 1974, 1975 and 1977.
After graduating from Yale, Shorter chose to pursue a law degree at the University of Florida in Gainesville because of the excellence of the environment and the opportunity to train with Jack Bacheler as members of the Florida Track Club (FTC) founded by Jimmy Carnes, then the head coach of the Florida Gators track & field team.[4] Bacheler was, at that time, regarded as America's best distance runner, having qualified for the finals of the 5,000-meter race at the 1968 Mexico City Olympics.[5] The FTC's core nucleus of Shorter, Bacheler and Jeff Galloway qualified for the 1972 Olympics and their success made Gainesville the Mecca of distance running on the East Coast in the early 1970s
Shorter won the U.S. national cross-country championships four times (1970, 1971, 1972, 1973). He was the U.S. Olympic Trials Champion in both the 10,000 m and the marathon in both 1972 and 1976. He also won both the 10,000 meter and the marathon at the 1971 Pan American Games. Shorter was a four-time winner of the Fukuoka Marathon (1971, 1972, 1973, 1974). He was successful on the road racing circuit as well, winning the Peachtree Road Race in 1977 and the Falmouth Road Race in 1975 and 1976.
Shorter won his greatest recognition, however, as a marathon runner, and is the only American athlete to win two medals in the Olympic marathon event Shorter won the gold medal in the marathon at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, Germany, after finishing fifth in the Olympic 10,000 meter final. He received the James E. Sullivan Award as the top amateur athlete in the United States afterward. He won the silver medal in the marathon at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Canada, ] finishing second behind previously unheralded gold medalist Waldemar Cierpinski of East Germany
From 2000 to 2003, Shorter was the chairman of the United States Anti-Doping Agency, a body that he helped to establish
Shorter was featured as a prominent character, played by Jeremy Sisto, in the 1998 film Without Limits. The film follows the life of Shorter's contemporary, training partner, Olympic teammate and some-time rival Steve Prefontaine. Shorter was the last person to see Prefontaine alive before he died in a car wreck.
Shorter was inducted into the Olympic Hall of Fame in 1984 and the USA National Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1989.
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