Frank Shorter's name is synonymous with long distance running in the United States and possibly the World. His gold medal in the 1972 Olympic Games marathon and silver in the 1976 games as well as his continued involvement in US Olympic sports and sports medicine has contributed to putting Boulder on the map as a running mecca.

Many runners have moved to Boulder to train (and a number of them are now Boulder-area citizens) because of Frank.

“I met Frank in the 70's when I was a volunteer at the CU track meets,” says Boulder attorney Joe French. “He was training for the '76 games but needed to make a living so he came into our firm as a law clerk. Training was his priority but he has tremendous ability and energy to focus on the job at hand, whether doing research or training for the Olympics. He won his silver medal in 1976, even though he ran the entire race with a broken bone in his foot.”

Frank began manufacturing running gear in the back of the old grocery store owned by the law offices and he opened a running store in downtown Boulder. “More than any other single athlete, I believe that Frank lit the torch for running in general and for bringing so many world-class runners to Boulder. He also has the integrity to speak up for keeping sports clean.”

Frank was founding chairman in 2000 of the United States Anti Doping Agency (USADA), the drug agency in charge of all testing, adjudication, education and research for all Olympic sports in the United States. He is a motivational speaker on sports and business and law, a sports color commentator on television, including the '88, '92, '96 and '00 Olympic Games for NBC-TV. He is also the president of Frank Shorter Sports (Sportswear) in the US, Canada and Japan.

He is presently guest lecturing on anti doping issues and working on children's health education as it relates to their sports activities. He is a member of the Blue Cross Blue Shield Healthy Competition Foundation and a board member of the Boulder Center for Sports Medicine. Frank has just completed a training book, “Frank Shorter”, to be released by DK Publishing, London, in the spring of 2005.

Frank graduated from Yale University in psychology and premed and received his law degree from the University of Florida School of Law. He was admitted to the Colorado Bar in 1975 and practiced law in Boulder.

In addition to his Olympic triumphs, he was the winner of the US Olympic Trials Marathon and 10,000 m. in 1972 and 1976. He was the gold medalist in the 1971 Pan American Games for Marathon and 10,000 m. as well as five-time national 10,000 m. and Cross-country champion. He won the Fukuoka, Japan Marathon four times. Frank was named to the US Olympic Hall of Fame, the US Track and Field Hall of Fame and the HS Distance Running Hall of Fame.