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National
Distance Running Hall Of Fame Names Jeff Darman
Its 2002 Lebow Award Recipient
November 1, 2002 (Utica,
New York) -- The National Distance Running
Hall of Fame has named Jeff Darman of Kennett
Square, Pennsylvania, the winner of its 2002
Fred Lebow Award for lifetime achievement.
Darman is president of Darman Associates, a
sports marketing and media relations agency
whose clients include Road Race Management,
Running Times the Sports Goods Manufacturers
Association and Moving Comfort, among others.
He is a former president of the Road Runner’s
Club of America and has actively supported a
number of important causes in distance running
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“While I have changed
careers several times, my love of running has remained
constant,” Darman said. “It’s
certainly an honor to receive an award named after
a great visionary like Fred Lebow.”
Established to honor the spirit and commitment of
the man who co-founded the New York City Marathon
and who worked tirelessly to build the race into
a world-renowned distance running event, the Lebow
Award will be presented to Darman at a breakfast
held in his honor on Friday, November 1 at 9:00
a.m., at the JPMorgan Chase building in New York.
“Having known and worked with Fred Lebow for
many years, and as a friend of my predecessors,
Don Kardong and Julia Emmons, this is particularly
meaningful,” Darman continued. “To walk
or run in their footsteps is something that will
always elicit great pride in me.”
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Life-long
commitment to athletes’ rights and grass
roots running, including helping to shape the
1978 Amateur Sports Act
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Acting as a behind-the-scenes
facilitator for numerous causes in distance
running, including challenging the Amateur Athletic
Union (AAU) over athlete bans in the 1970’s,
and leading the effort to rescind AAU/TAC control
over all competition
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The development of open
prize money in the 1980’s; the emergence
of the RRCA as the national grass roots running
organization in the U.S., and the development
of the RRCA’s “Roads Scholars”
program in the 1990s
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Serving on the RRCA,
USATF, ARRA, USOC and PRRO boards. |
“Jeff Darman, like Fred Lebow, has demonstrated
vision, dedication and commitment to the sport of
distance running,” said John Petrone, director
of the National Distance Running Hall of Fame. “Jeff’s
achievements reflect the spirit not only of this
sport, but also of Fred Lebow—a man who demonstrated
that the ability to succeed comes from inner strength
and personal determination.”
This year’s Lebow Award breakfast is sponsored
by the National Distance Running Hall of Fame, the
New York Road Runners Club, JPMorgan Chase, Runner’s
World, Larry Rawson and the Memorial Sloan-Kettering
Cancer Center.
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