Waitz

• “Lebow and Waitz famously ran the race together in 1992, when Lebow's cancer was in remission.”

  The Wall Street Journal: New York Road Runners to Honor Waitz, Lebow

• “Fred Lebow, the race's architect, and Greta Waitz, a nine-time women's champion, will be inducted into the New York Road Runners Hall of Fame as its inaugural class, NYRR president and CEO Mary Wittenberg announced Thursday.”

  The Wall Street Journal: New York Road Runners to Honor Waitz, Lebow

• “In her memory, organizers decided to break with tradition and invite eight men who had close ties to the great Norwegian marathoner, including her husband, Jack Waitz, and an older brother, Jan Andersen.”

  The Wall Street Journal: New York Mini Celebrates 40 Years of Women on the Run

• “This year's race is dedicated to another great, Grete Waitz, a five-time Mini winner, who succumbed to cancer on April 19 at age 57.”

  The Wall Street Journal: New York Mini Celebrates 40 Years of Women on the Run

• “As I was cooling down, an older runner and TNT alumni came up next to me and talked to me about my training, offered me tips, asked about my fundraising and told me a great little story about randomly running in the park with marathon great Grete Waitz.”

  The Huffington Post: Emily Faherty: I Run... Because I Can: Countdown to the New York City Marathon

• “Indeed, his own countrymen have been on the whole first somewhat tardy, and then somewhat sparing, in their appreciation of one whose signal services to the Monumenta Germaniae had already before 1879 won the personal recognition of Mommsen, Waitz, Wattenbach and the whole group of distinguished men then associated in the production of that great work.”

  The Life and Death of Edmund Bishop, English Liturgiologist: An Account by His Contemporary, Dom Hugh Connolly, OSB

• “And seemingly every year, I would interview the gracious winner, Grete Waitz.”

  The Huffington Post: Ann Liguori: Grete Waitz Was a Hero and a True Inspiration

• “And thousands would come out every year to see Grete Waitz win over and over again -- nine times!”

  The Huffington Post: Ann Liguori: Grete Waitz Was a Hero and a True Inspiration

• “Grete Waitz, a Norwegian athlete who shocked the running community by setting a world record in her first marathon in New York City in 1978, died in Oslo on Tuesday at the age of 57.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Marathon Legend Waitz Dies at 57

• “ASSOCIATED PRESS Grete Waitz running during the Trevira twosome race on April 27, 1985.”

  The Wall Street Journal: Marathon Legend Waitz Dies at 57

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