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Frank O'Mara is one of the most popular and richest Long-Distance Runner who was born on July 17, 1960 in Limerick, County Limerick, Ireland. In five instances, O’Mara was Irish national champion. In 2015 O’Mara was inducted into the Irish Athletics Hall of Fame in 2015.

Primarily a miler early on, O’Mara set a personal best in 1985 for the 1500m, finishing second at the Ivo Van Dame Invitational with a time of 3:34.02. Three weeks later, he won the Fifth Avenue Mile in an impressive 3:52.28. He set his personal best for the mile when finishing 4th in the 1986 Grand prix final in Rome with a time of 3:51.06. He finished 8th at the European Championship in Stuttgart in the 1500m race won by Steve Cram ahead of Sebastian Coe. Also that summer, he was a member of the Irish quartet of Coghlan, O’Sullivan and Flynn who broke the World 4 x 1 Mile record, becoming the first team to break 16 minutes, setting a new mark of 15:49.08.

O’Mara received a scholarship to the Arkansas, where he studied engineering. While there, he ran 3:40.5 in Houston, TX in 1983 to become only the third Irishman to ever win the NCAA 1500m. That same year, he was on the first University of Arkansas team to win a Championship of America title at the Penn Relays, where he anchored the distance medley relay. He also anchored the 4 x 1500m relay team to victory and was named the Penn Relays’ most valuable track performer. That summer he ran 3:52.50 at the Cork City Sports and was a semi-finalist at the inaugural world championships in Helsinki. In 1997, he was inducted into the University of Arkansas Sports Hall of Honor.

O’Mara was appointed the CEO at Allied Wireless, a subsidiary of Atlantic Tele Network (ATW) in September of 2009. Atlantic Tele-Network (ATN) bought the previously owned Alltel areas from Verizon. ATN also acquired Alltel. Alltel brand, allowing Allied to be able to operate under the brand name of Alltel in the new markets. O’Mara established a team comprised consisting of mostly former Alltel colleagues who completed major systems networks, customer support transformations. The year 2013 was the time that ATN was sold to Allied Wireless to AT&T. In his time in the role of CEO O’Mara also served as a board member on the executive of CTIA (the industry association for wireless).

He began his professional career as a lawyer at Alltel Wireless in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1996. He was in various leadership positions at Alltel including EVP of Human Resources and EVP of Customer Service. But his time being Chief Marketing Officer of the company was by far the most memorable. In that time, Alltel changed its logo and rebranded nearly 800 retail stores and 3,000 agent sites, introduced a revolutionary product known as My Circle and implemented a nationally-wide, award-winning campaign for advertising that featured the rival’s sales personnel. The company was acquired by Verizon in January 2009. Verizon bought Alltel in a deal worth $28.1 billion.

O’Mara’s two major victories in the 3000m happened during World Indoor Championships. At Indianapolis in 1987, he won a tactical race in 8:03.32, beating fellow countryman Paul Donovan, who placed second. In 1989, he failed to defend his title at Budapest, finishing 5th behind Saïd Aouita. That same year, he edged out close friend Marcus O’Sullivan to win the US Indoor Championships at Madison Square Garden. But in 1991, he reclaimed his title with a dominating performance in Seville. Leading at the bell, he easily pulled away from Hammou Boutayeb in a championship record of 7:41.14, which was the third fastest time ever run.