![]() ![]() Switzer was the first woman with a bib issued by the Boston Athletic Association to finish the Boston Marathon in 1967. Beach is on the verge of becoming the first person to run the Boston Marathon 50 consecutive times if he completes the race on Monday. Now 70, Switzer tells the Boston Globe, “I’m not worried about the physicalness of my capability … what I do worry about is being tired.”Īfter this year’s race, the Boston Marathon is retiring Switzer’s bib number.Kathrine Switzer talks with Ben Beach during a media availability at the Copley Plaza Hotel near the Boston Marathon finish line Thursday, April 13, 2017, in Boston. Switzer has since run 39 marathons and started 261 Fearless, a foundation to support women runners. Still, Semple had her disqualified, while another race organizer reportedly commented, “If that girl were my daughter, I would spank her.”īy 1972, the race allowed women to register too. (The year prior, Bobbi Gibb became the first woman to run the marathon, but she did it unofficially.) Though there were no official rules barring women, it wasn’t the norm Switzer was able to register without suspicion in the first place because she used her first two initials, K.V., instead of her full name. Fifty years later, on April 17, Switzer is returning to the race wearing the same number.įollowing the incident in the now-iconic photo, Switzer went on to complete the marathon in about four hours and 20 minutes. In 1967, a few miles into the Boston Marathon course, 20-year-old Kathrine Switzer was ambushed by race director Jock Semple, who tried to rip her bib - number 261 - off. ![]() Photo: Boston Globe/Boston Globe via Getty Images Kathrine Switzer being ambushed during the 1967 Boston Marathon. ![]()
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