Norway’s Grete Waitz almost gave up on competitive running before her 25th birthday. Just in time, she found the marathon — or it found her when charismatic New York City Marathon director Fred Lebow ...

OSLO, Norway - Grete Waitz, the Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was ...

She had already accomplished much when she agreed to act as a pacemaker at the 1978 New York City marathon. Grete Waitz had been a champion cross country skier, a world record-holder at 3,000 meters ...

Grete Waitz the Norwegian who won nine New York marathons and a silver Olympic medal died today after a six-year battle with cancer. She was 57. A former Oslo schoolteacher, Ms Waitz won her first New ...

The two figures most associated with the New York City Marathon are the great Grete Waitz and the late Fred Lebow. They’re linked by what they’ve done for the race, and for the sport. Now they’re also ...

Grete Waitz, whose nine New York City Marathon victories made her one of the dominant runners of the 1980s and helped destroy the notion that women were too delicate to race such long distances, died ...

OSLO, NorwayOSLO, Norway — Grete Waitz had never run a marathon before the New York City race in October 1978. After it, her name and New York would be forever linked. The lean Norwegian ...

OSLO, Norway — Grete Waitz, the Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was ...

OSLO, Norway -- Grete Waitz had never run a marathon before the New York City race in October 1978. After it, her name and New York would be forever linked. The lean Norwegian middle-distance runner, ...

OSLO, Norway — Grete Waitz, the Norwegian runner who won nine New York City Marathons and the silver medal at the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, died Tuesday after a six-year battle with cancer. She was ...