Rodgers, Shorter and Benoit Samuelson to be inducted into NYRR Hall of Fame

Posted by NY Daily News on September 19, 2013

A trio of American marathon legends - Bill Rodgers, Frank Shorter and Joan Benoit Samuelson - along with the late Ted Corbitt, a founding father of the sport in this country, will be inducted next month into the New York Road Runners Hall of Fame.

“The Class of 2013 is an extraordinary one featuring larger than life champions who defined our sport and inspired generations of New Yorkers and runners world wide," said NYRR CEO Mary Wittenberg.

Samuelson, 56, won the first Olympic women’s marathon in Los Angeles in 1984, and also won Boston twice. Rodgers, 65, won New York and Boston four times apiece, and was the world’s No. 1 marathoner in 1975, 1977 and 1979.

Shorter, 65, won the 1972 Olympic Marathon in Munich and took silver four years later in Montreal.