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Happy Birthday Kathrine
On Her Birthday, Running Pioneer Explains How She’s Mastering Marathons Into Her 70s Kathrine Switzer celebrates her 71st birthday today in Wellington, New Zealand, where she winters with her husband, runner and author Roger Robinson. Switzer was a pioneer female marathoner in the 1960s, a sub-elite racer (with a personal best of 2:51 for 26.2) in…Read More
SideTrack: Kathrine Switzer, Trevor Noah, Olivia Culpo…,Boston Herald, by Olivia Vanni
FEET FEATS: Running royalty Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an official entrant and co-founder of social running community 261 Fearless Inc., was in Boston yesterday for a meetup with some of the women in the 261 Fearless Club Greater Boston. They met at the Adidas RunBase store on Boylston…Read More
How This 70-Year-Old Marathon Runner Stays Just as Fit as She Was at 20, Reader’s Digest, by Marissa Laliberte
At 70 years old, Kathrine Switzer has run 40 marathons in her life—and she has no intention of stopping anytime soon. Switzer first came to the public eye in 1967, when she was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon. Back then, she had to use her initials, K. V., instead of her first…Read More
How the First Woman to Run the Boston Marathon Is Still Running Marathons at 70, TIME, by Katie Reilly
When Kathrine Switzer crossed the finish line of the Boston Marathon in 1967, it was remarkable because she was a woman — the first to run the race as an official entrant. When she crossed the same finish line 50 years later, it was remarkable because she was 70. Switzer, who built a career on…Read More
Runner Marks Historical Marathon
Kathrine Switzer, 70, who 50 years ago was the first woman to officially run in the Boston Marathon, wore the same bib number and ran in the event on Monday in the US. When Switzer ran in 1967, officials roughly tried to stop her, angry a woman was running, but then her boyfriend pushed them…Read More
The 121st Boston Marathon included the first woman to officially run the race 50 years ago, ABC News, By Kaelyn Forde
Fifty years after becoming the first woman to officially finish the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer has done it again. “I’m exhilarated,” she told ABC News after finishing the 26.2-mile race on Monday. “All the way along the route, people had heard my story, saw my bib, and they were holding signs up that read ‘261…Read More
Switzer Is ‘261’ And Fearless In Boston, The Huffington Post, by Terry Lyons
BOSTON – (April 17, 2017) – The elevator door swung open on the fifth floor of the Sheraton Boston hotel and Kathrine Switzer, age 70, strode down the hallway with a purpose. With an adidas rolling bag behind her, she walked quickly as there were people to see and interviews to do. Her schedule resembled…Read More
Kathrine Switzer Returns to the Boston Marathon, Outside Magazine, by Molly Mirhashem
Later this month, 50 years after making history, the first woman to run the iconic event will race it again We caught up with Switzer about the 1967 race, her plans for this year’s marathon, and the broader landscape of women in sports. OUTSIDE: What does it mean to you to run Boston again this…Read More
50 Years After Sparking a Revolution, an Icon Runs Boston Again, Runners World, by Amanda Loudin
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer wasn’t allowed to run the Boston Marathon, but she did anyway. This year, she’s back. Fifty years ago, a spry 20-year-old brunette stepped onto the Boston Marathon course for the first time, like “a pilgrim going to a shrine.” She had no grand plans that day, she just wanted to run…Read More
QUAND LES FEMMES N’AVAIENT PAS LE DROIT DE COURIR, Radio Canada, par Olivier Paradis-Lemieux
En avril 1967, c’est sous le pseudonyme de K.V. Switzer qu’une femme participait officiellement pour la première fois au marathon de Boston. Cinquante ans après que Jock Semple eut tenté d’arracher son dossard numéro 261 en pleine course, Kathrine Switzer se rappelle encore la colère dans le visage du directeur du marathon de Boston. «…Read More
La carrera de las pioneras, Marca newspaper, Spain, Cristina Mitre
Kathrine Switzer, primera mujer en correr con dorsal una maratón, y Cristina Mitre, impulsora del running femenino popular en España, participarán juntas en Boston Hace 50 años de una imagen histórica. Aquella en la que el juez del maratón de Boston intentaba echar de la carrera a Kathrine Switzer. En una época en la que…Read More
ESPN Sports Center airs feature on Kathrine and 261 Fearless
ESPN Sports Center did a wonderful job with the #261Fearless story! Check out the video all the way from New Zealand to New York, and finally a training run with many of the 261 Fearless Team Boston runners in the HOP21 run starting in Hopkinton, Massachusetts! I really appreciate all the Team Boston runners that…Read More
Kathrine Switzer On Her Return To The Boston Marathon, Competitor Magazine, by Allison Patillo
In April, Kathrine Switzer—athlete, activist, author, Emmy award-winning television commentator and founder of the nonprofit 261 Fearless—will run the Boston Marathon again. In 1967 the now 70-year-old runner was the first woman to run the race as a registered entrant (in 1966 Bobbi Gibb was the first female to run the Boston Marathon, but she…Read More
The Women Who Are Running To Protest Trump Are Tapping Into History, Huffington Post
There is a long tradition of women running as a form of protest. By Erin Schumaker In the wake of President Donald Trump’s electoral victory, Alison Désir, the founder of a community running organization in New York City called Harlem Run, turned her frustration into political action. Désir’s remedy: a four-woman, 240-mile relay, beginning in Harlem, New…Read More
Reebok teams with Kathrine Switzer & 261 Fearless; by Donna Goodman, Boston Herald
Reebok is expanding its reach into fitness and running through a new partnership with Kathrine Switzer — who made history as the first woman to run and finish the Boston Marathon with a bib number in 1967, despite one race official’s effort to forcibly remove her from what was then a strictly men’s event. The…Read More
It wasn’t easy to be the 1st female Boston Marathoner, RVAnews by Kathryn Pullman
What does a small town runner do when she’s suddenly given the opportunity to interview two running legends? First, she doesn’t believe it. Next, she has an internal fan-girl freak out–imagine jumping up and down, squealing, grinning… the whole nine yards. But all internal. (I swear.) Then, once she’s recovered, she dives into research so…Read More
FOUR RULE-BREAKING LESSONS FROM THE FIRST WOMAN TO (OFFICIALLY) RUN THE BOSTON MARATHON, Fast Company, by Gwen Moran
HOW KATHRINE SWITZER’S HISTORY-MAKING MOVE IN 1967 LED TO A CAREER ADVOCATING FOR WOMEN IN SPORTS. When Kathrine “K.V.” Switzer took her place at the starting line of the 1967 Boston Marathon, wearing a bulky, grey sweat suit and lipstick, she was about to make history. No woman had ever officially entered and run the…Read More
Kathrine’s Boston Marathon Recap, AOL On Sports video
Reporting from the Boston Marathon photo bridge, Kathrine Switzer reports on the near photo finish of the elite women’s race. If unable to see video, watch video here.Read More
Kathrine Switzer Reports Live from the Boston Marathon, AOL On Sports
Here, Kathrine reports from the race course where she first made history. If unable to view video, view video here.Read More
8 Women Made History at Boston Marathon in 1972 –14,000 Registered in 2015 Race, Huffington Post by Beverly Wettenstein
On April 19, 1967, Kathrine Switzer, 20, a journalism major at Syracuse University, entered the Boston Marathon as “K.V. Switzer,” wearing a bulky sweatsuit. At the time, the Amateur Athletics Union (AAU) did not admit women into marathons. Switzer became the first female to officially enter and run. The photo of a race official forcibly…Read More