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CRAIG A. MASBACK
(Biography)

CEO of USA Track & Filed (USATF), the national governing body for track and field, long distance running and race walking

In 1999, USATF launched the Golden Spike tour, a series of nine elite track meets featuring the world’s best athletes with coverage on NBC, CBS, and ESPN

Track and field commentator for the Barcelona and Atlanta Olympic Games on NBC

Former track and field commentator for NBC at the Barcelona and Atlanta Olympic Games and provided network television commentary for numerous other track and field events for NBC, CBS, ESPN, and ABC over a 15-year broadcast career

From 1982 through 1984, worked for the International Olympic Committee as an assistant to the director of the Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Switzerland

Served on several USATF committees, while an athlete, marketing executive, and a lawyer

In 1979, ranked as history’s sixth fastest miler with a time of 3:52.02 mile

In 1980, named U.S. indoor mile champion and former American record holder at 2,000 meters

Co-founded Inclyne Sports, a sports marketing company that created a variety of sporting events, sold sponsorships and produced television programs that aired on CBS, NBC, ABC, and ESPN

Graduated from Princeton University and Yale Law School, attended Trinity College/Oxford University from 1977-79 on a Keasbey Foundation Fellowship and was the recipient of an NCAA postgraduate scholarship



 

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