She also started a non-profit, 261 Fearless, that supports women’s rights around through world through non-competitive running. Switzer has now run in 40 marathons, BBC reports, and started the Fearless Boston Marathon Team, a group of 125 runners who completed Monday’s race for charity. Read More: This Muslim Woman Is Dedicating Her First Ever Boston Marathon to Refugees She’s using her accomplishment as an opportunity to speak out for women’s rights and against sexism in sport and elsewhere. And at 70-years-old, she finished the race at a pace just 24 minutes slower than the one she set at age 20, the Boston Globe reports. Now, in 2017, Switzer is back on the course. Great video-50 yrs after becoming 1st woman to officially run the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer finishes again.
Of course, she finished the race (with a little bit of help from her boyfriend at the time, who body-checked the official off the course), and went down in history as the first woman to officially register for and complete the marathon. “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!” the man had yelled at her, she wrote in her memoir, “Marathon Woman.”
Take Action: Help Women Around the World Through the Products You Buy The man, a race official, attempted to pull off her identification bib because he, among many men at the time, believed women were “ too fragile” to run the 26-mile race.ĥ0 years after pushing away a Boston Marathon official to become 1st woman to cross finish line, Kathrine Switzer, in same #, does it today /rkhcjD0adl In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon, despite being assaulted by a man only a mile into the race. In an era where a woman ran for president, garnering more than half of the nation’s votes, it’s hard to imagine that just 50 years ago, women weren’t allowed to run in marathons. Hi Friends! I'm on the starting line - ready to go! #261Fearless /0MS3VyyZuq
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