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Former Olympian and World-Record Marathon Runner Alberto Salazar Named Honorary Captain of Medtronic Global Heroes
Published in Medical Devices and Surgical Technology Week, August 3rd, 2008
The Medtronic Foundation and Twin Cities Marathon, Inc., announced former Olympian and marathon world record holder Alberto Salazar will serve as the honorary captain of the 2008 Medtronic Global Heroes and will run in the Medtronic TC 10 Mile. Salazar will lead a group of 25 Global Heroes - long-distance runners who benefit from medical technology - who are preparing to run either the Medtronic Twin Cities Marathon or Medtronic TC 10 Mile on Sunday, Oct. 5, 2008. Salazar had a Medtronic implantable cardioverter defibrillator (ICD) implanted following sudden cardiac arrest in 2007.
In its third year, the Medtronic Global Heroes program celebrates the accomplishments of...
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