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Books > Sport & Leisure > Sports & outdoor recreation > Track & field sports, athletics > General
A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th
anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston
Marathon as the first woman to run. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was
the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston
Marathon, infuriating one of the event's directors who attempted to
violently eject her. In one of the most iconic sports moments,
Switzer escaped and finished the race. She made history-and is
poised to do it again on the fiftieth anniversary of that initial
race, when she will run the 2017 Boston Marathon at age 70. Now a
spokesperson for Reebok, Switzer is also the founder of 261
Fearless, a foundation dedicated to creating opportunities for
women on all fronts, as this groundbreaking sports hero has done
throughout her life. Kathrine Switzer is the Susan B. Anthony of
women's marathoning.-Joan Benoit Samuelson, first Olympic gold
medalist in the women's marathon
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