While equal gender representation in marathons has now become routine, races in the not-so-distant past looked vastly different.
Also, those fields were about the same size: 14,675 men completed the race, while 11,982 women finished. Both the men’s and women’s races ranged from world-class athletes to time-qualifier squeakers to charity runners. This past April, 26,657 runners crossed the 2019 Boston Marathon finish line. She also played a key role in establishing the first women’s Olympic Marathon in 1984.Switzer, now 72, is best-known for becoming the first woman to officially register and run the Boston Marathon.Kathrine Switzer’s best-selling memoir, Marathon Woman, is set to be adapted into a film by Chastain Film Capital.
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