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	DNK Amazon Store :: Anything For A T-shirt: Fred Lebow And The New York City Marathon, The World's Greatest Footrace ...
		"Fred Lebow was a dreamer, the kind of dreamer who pursued his dream and made it a reality.
		Lebow mainstreamed the notion of marathoning into popular culture; some half million Americans now run marathons.
		He skillfully shows how Fred Lebow, an immigrant from Romania, progresses to developing the most exciting mass participation sporting event in the world.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0815608063 (513 words)

	Fred Lebow Inducted to Distance Running Hall of Fame
		Fred Lebow, the former president of the New York Road Runners and race director of the New York City Marathon, was inducted into the National Distance Running Hall of Fame in a gala ceremony in Utica, New York, on Saturday, July 7.
		Lebow, who died of brain cancer at age 62 in 1994, was a co-founder of the NYC Marathon and directed the race until 1993.
		She likened Lebow to a magician whose genius was to not only make running—and in particular the marathon—something that mattered to the handful of elite athletes vying for the top prize, but to the tens of thousands of participants at all fitness and talent levels, and the millions more watching them.
	www.nyrrc.org /nyrrc/org/press/lebowinduction.html (923 words)

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		Fred Lebow, who directed the growth of the New York City Marathon, serves as chairman of the New York Road Runners Club.
		Lebow was placed in the Hall of Fame by a special vote of USTAF's executive committee on July 18, and a subsequent waiver by the HOF's board of directors His induction took place August 23, 1994, in special ceremonies in New York.
		Lebow, who completed a total of 69 marathons in over 30 countries, served as president of the New York Road Runners for 20 years before being promoted to chairman in 1993.
	www.usatf.org /athletes/hof/lebow.asp (248 words)

	Fred Lebow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fred Lebow (June 3, 1932 - October 9, 1994) (born: Fischel Lebowitz) was an avid road runner and founder of the New York City Marathon.
		Born in Transylvania, Romania, he transformed the marathon from a small race with 55 finishers in 1970 to one of the largest marathons in the world with over 36,544 finishers in 2004.
		Fred ran in the inaugural NYC marathon in 1970, finishing 45th out of 55 runners with a time of 4:12:09.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fred_Lebow (255 words)

	Fred Lebow
		Lebow served as director of the New York City Marathon every year since its inception in 1970 through 1993.
		Lebow was the president of the New York Road Runners Club (NYRR) for 20 years, growing the group from 270 members initially to 31,000 - making NYRR the world’s largest organization of its kind.
		In early 1990, Lebow was diagnosed with brain cancer, and two years later, he ran his first five-borough marathon in celebration of his 60th birthday.
	www.distancerunning.com /inductees/2001/lebow.html (275 words)

	USATF - Hall of Fame (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		To countless millions, Fred Lebow was the New York City Marathon - the perennial enthusiast and tireless organizer who oversaw the famous footrace.
		Born Fischel Lebowitz, Lebow was a native of Transylvania who was forced to flee from the Nazis and later from the Soviets while still in his teens.
		Lebow was placed in the Hall of Fame by a special vote of USATF's executive committee on July 18, 1994, and a subsequent waiver by the HOF's board of directors.
	www.usatf.org /HallOfFame/TF/showBio.asp?HOFIDs=95 (305 words)

	Fred Lebow's Race to The Finish - December 14, 2004 - The New York Sun
		Born in 1932 in Romania, Lebow survived the Holocaust after the German army arrived late in the war in his Transylvanian town near the Hungarian border.
		Lebow immigrated to America, studied at Yeshiva Torah Vodaath in Brooklyn, and opened an improvisational theater in Cleveland.
		Lebow's big breakthrough came in 1976, when the race spanned five boroughs and knitted the city together.
	www.nysun.com /article/6244 (415 words)

	Grete Waitz — KCRW \| 89.9FM (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Just then, a charismatic Romanian named Fred Lebow was flexing his talent as a visionary, working to make the New York City Marathon into a world-famous spectacle, to be run through all five boroughs of the city, bringing in the best marathoners in the world, and including thousands more to push themselves to the finish.
		Just then, her dear friend Fred Lebow was diagnosed with brain cancer and he made it known that he wanted to experience the event he had made into a star, the New York City Marathon, before his time was up.
		Fred Lebow did die of brain cancer and Grete says she has never for a moment regretted her decision to run every step of the way, inches from his side.
	www.kcrw.com /etc/programs/ts/ts051110grete_waitz (683 words)

	UJC - The Visionary
		Fred's story is intriguing and well-known: he grew up in Arad, Romania, near the Hungarian border, in a large, Orthodox Jewish family that fled the town after World War II.
		Fred was the perfect person to put running on the map, a blend of priest of our sport and P. Barnum--style promoter.
		Finally, Fred's typical upbeat mood kicked back in, and he began talking about a marathon in which a head-to-head duel to the finish was more important than new records.
	www.ujc.org /content_display.html?ArticleID=22945 (2019 words)

	uticaBoilermaker.com :: The starting place on the Web for Upstate N.Y. runners
		Lebow was the much-loved visionary behind the New York City Marathon, which gave rise to big-city marathons all over the world and helped fuel the massive rise of road racing in the 1970s and 1980s.
		Lebow, a Romanian immigrant — from Transylvania specifically, which is why some of his friends called him “The Count,” a joke he didn’t get at first — endeared himself to thousands worldwide with his efforts to popularize marathoning.
		Lebow, Steinfeld said, was not a details guy, but a visionary, one who could get just about anybody to do just about anything he wanted.
	www.uticaboilermaker.com /boilermaker/archives/2001/news11.htm (1173 words)

	Can exercise each day keep cancer at bay? - exercise may help prevent colon and breast cancer - Preventing Cancer: What ...
		Fred Lebow came to the United States in 1951, a Romanian-born Jew with grand vision, ambition, and a gift for hard work and pragmatism.
		Lebow was shocked and surprised when he was diagnosed with brain cancer in February 1990.
		Lebow's fight against cancer was well known and has raised some important questions in the minds of many runners and fitness enthusiasts: Why did Fred Lebow get cancer in the first place - isn't exercise supposed to lower the risk?
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0826/is_n3_v11/ai_16728278 (1021 words)

	Motivation-Runners' Stories (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		I knew Fred Lebow years after he was Fischl Lebowitz, the scrappy kid from Transylvania, Romania, but well before he became just "Fred," the one-syllable race director known around the world.
		When Lebow took the New York City Marathon from the confines of Central Park to the dirty, not-yet-gentrified streets of the five boroughs in 1976, we all thought he was crazy.
		Lebow was in remission from the brain cancer that had struck two years earlier.
	www.runnersworld.com /article/0,7120,ssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss6-243-297--10545-8-6X11X16X20X25X27X28X29X30X31X32-12,00.html (593 words)

	Fred Lebow
		Since its inception in 1970 until his death in 1994, Fred Lebow was director of the New York City Marathon.
		Lebow was president of the New York Road Runners Club (NYRRC) from 1972 until his death.
		Lebow was acknowledged as one of the major influences behind the running boom throughout the world.
	www.jewishsports.net /PillarAchievementBios/FredLebow.htm (210 words)

	Fishl's Footrace: An Interview With Fred Lebow's Biographer
		Fred Lebow, who died in October 1994, took a small race that had been held in Central Park and turned it into a Big Apple spectacle — the New York City Marathon, the world's greatest footrace.
		Fred, or Ephraim Fishl Lebowitz, was born into an Orthodox Jewish family in pre-war Europe.
		Fred's relationship with city officials varied widely, depending on what he or they were looking for and where they were along the timeline of the marathon's history.
	www.jewishpress.com /page.do/17370/Fishl%27s_Footrace%3A_An_Interview_With_Fred_Lebow%27s_Biographer.html (913 words)

	26.2 Miles of Trouble
		Begun by Fred Lebow in 1970, his influence on the marathon and role in the founding of the New York City Road Runner Club, the group which organizes the race, cannot be overestimated.
		Lebow fought long and hard to exclude them from the Marathon, insistent that the event not be turned into a "freak show," as he reportedly said at one controversial closed-door session.
		Real progress for wheelchair athletes came shortly before Lebow's death in 1994, when he apparently had a change of heart (he ended up using a wheelchair toward the end of his life) and endorsed the participation of wheelchair athletes.
	www.raggededgemagazine.com /focus/26miles.html (1935 words)

	The Running Network -- Event Directors -- Article
		"Julia Emmons displays the qualities Fred Lebow would be honored to work with," said John Petrone, co-director of the Distance Running Hall of Fame.
		We wanted to honor someone who, like Fred Lebow, amazes us all with what is possible in terms of organized running.
		Lebow's achievements continue to be recognized after his posthumous induction into the Utica, New York shrine this past July.
	www.runningnetwork.com /eventdirectors/lebowaward2001.html (381 words)

	Track & Field News: ING NY City Marathon--A Look Back
		Vince Chiappetta and the late Fred Lebow were the co-race directors as 127 runners competed in the first NYC Marathon, which consisted of 4+ loops of the Central Park roadway.
		Lebow agreed and a tradition was born, with the band still playing the familiar tune for four hours on raceday.
		A statue of Lebow is located in Central Park, not far from the NY Road Runners headquarters on E.89th St in Manhattan.
	www.trackandfieldnews.com /tfn/displayArticle.jsp?id=6018 (2248 words)

	Runner's & Triathlete's Web Athletics: Fred Lebow biography now available
		A biography on New York City Marathon founder Fred Lebow is now on sale to the general public.
		The book, published by Syracuse University Press, tells the story of the humbly born Holocaust survivor, who ran the New York City Marathon for the first time in 1992 as a cancer patient committed to showing the world how running was helping him win his battle against the dread disease.
		Lebow ran the race to fulfill a deathbed promise he had made to himself and to bring hope to others.
	www.runnersweb.com /running/news/rw_news_20050114_USATF_News.html (317 words)

	Jewish and Israel News from New York - The Jewish Week
		Lebow is Fred Lebow, the Holocaust survivor turned sports entrepreneur who turned the New York Marathon from a few laps around Central Park for a few dozen aficionados into an international event throughout the city that attracts more 30,000 runners each November.
		Lebow, who had battled brain cancer for four years, died at 62 in October 1994, three weeks before the marathon.
		Lebow, who worked in Manhattan’s garment district and took up running to get in shape for tennis, was a natural showman who understood human nature.
	www.thejewishweek.com /news/newscontent.php3?artid=11570 (1074 words)

	Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
		Weak from his battle with cancer, Fred Lebow struggled in the 1992 New York City Marathon but finished in 5:32:34.
		Fred Lebow passed away in 1994, but he left a legacy of hope.
		Members of Fred's Team participate in various events and marathons across the country and around the world, including the Sailing Across the Atlantic and the New York City and Paris Marathon.
	www.makeadonation.com /msk (162 words)

	Runner's & Triathlete's Web Athletics: Chicago's Carey Pinkowski Receives the 2005 Fred Lebow ...
		Pinkowski will be honored with the fifth annual Fred Lebow Award on November 5 in conjunction with this year's ING New York City Marathon.
		Prior to his death in 1994 from brain cancer at the age of 62, Lebow managed to run 68 marathons in 30 countries, and acted as Race Director of the New York City Marathon until 1993.
		He has also made Chicago one of the largest and most prestigious races in the world and is responsible for recruiting the world-class athletes that compete in Chicago.
	www.runnersweb.com /running/news/rw_news_20041028_Pinkowski.html (454 words)

	Run With Intent
		Fred was approached by a youth gang that warned him that nobody had better run through their turf.
		Fred decided what was truly important to him and he found a way to do it.
		Fred would say that it’s not about how long you live, but how you run the race of life.
	www.allthingsfrugal.com /sg.intent.htm (501 words)

	American Track and Field -- Regional News Article
		The late Fred Lebow was the man who brought city marathons into world culture.
		Fred had been telling companies around New York what he wanted to do for years, but the Romanian apparel salesman was right---it was time to show off the city of New York and the city marathon---the destination marathon was started.
		With Lebow gone, Allan Steinfeld, his number two, is the man of the marathon.
	www.american-trackandfield.com /news/aftnewswirevol6no40.html (2079 words)

	Sloan-Kettering - Fred's Team: About Fred's Team
		Fred's Team is a dynamic group of first-time and veteran marathon runners with the common goals of raising funds for critical cancer research and completing a marathon.
		In addition to individual contributions, Fred's Team is looking for a corporate sponsor to support our runners, which in turn will help direct even more money to innovative research and patient care initiatives.
		Fred's Team is looking for generous corporate and/or foundation sponsors to help underwrite our fundraising campaign.
	www.mskcc.org /mskcc/html/14334.cfm (595 words)

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		Rod Dixon was eating lunch at a table full of running gurus the day before the 1982 World Cross Country Championships in Rome, when Fred Lebow told him it was time he ran a marathon.
		“I was sitting in this wonderful luncheon, and there was Fred Lebow, Bob Bright (of the Chicago Marathon) and Chris Brasher from the London Marathon – a lot of the great marathon directors – and there were a lot of the former athletes, like Franco Fava, the Italian cross country runner.
		Lebow, New York’s race director was undeterred: “If you finish in the top 10 in tomorrow’s World Cross Country Championships, would you consider it?”
	www.wvrr.org /misc/roddixon.html (2143 words)

	BMCC Faculty Books - 2005 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In its examination of the relationships between family, church and school, the book explores how religion and other cultural traits, such as family structure, language, and ethnic identity, interact and yield particular educational outcomes.
		Fred Lebow’s race - The New York City Marathon - was, from its beginning, part street theater, part world-class competition, and has grown to symbolize the spirit of the city, itself.
		The book traces Lebow’s life from his birth in western Romania through his development into an international leader in sports.
	www.bmcc.cuny.edu /experts/FacultyBooks_05.htm (249 words)

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