“Forty years ago April 19, Jock Semple tried to throw me out of the Boston Marathon because I was a woman,” said Switzer.
Off the racecourse, Switzer’s career has included creating programs in 27 countries for over 1 million women that led to the inclusion of the women’s marathon as an official event in the Olympic Games, changing forever the face of sports, health and opportunities for women around the world. At the time, it was the 6th best women’s marathon time in the world, and 3rd in the United States. Motivated by the incident, she went on to run 35 marathons, won the 1974 New York City Marathon, and ran her personal best of 2:51.33 by finishing 2nd in the 1975 Boston Marathon. Her ruse was discovered by a race official who attempted to physically remove her from the race. Switzer” in 1967 at a time when many believed women were incapable of running the 26.2 miles.
Switzer is most famously known as the first woman to run the Boston marathon with an official race number, entering the race as “K.V. Luke’s Half Marathon and 5k Pasta Dinner, April 28, 2012, and will be on hand throughout the weekend to share her inspirational stories as a pioneer in women’s running. – Author, broadcaster and accomplished runner Kathrine Switzer will be the speaker at the St.
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