Monday, 17 April 2017

First Woman To Wear A Boston Bib Races Again, 50 Years Later

In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was spotted early in the Boston Marathon by race director Jock Semple, who tried to rip the number off her shirt and remove her from the race. Switzer

After Kathrine Switzer entered the marathon in 1967 — without telling organizers she was a woman — the race director tried to rip her numbers off. She finished anyway. She ran the race again in 2017.

(Image credit: Paul Connell/Boston Globe via Getty Images)



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