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The Boston Marathon became the first major marathon to include a wheelchair division, in 1975, which was won by Robert Hall, [1] though the first person to complete the race in a wheelchair had been Eugene Roberts in 1970. [6] The first female wheelchair finisher, Sharon Rahn, came in 1977.
Pages in category "Boston Marathon female winners" The following 42 pages are in this category, out of 42 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. B.
Her name was inscribed with the names of the other winners on the Boston Marathon Memorial in Copley Square. [24] In 2016, Gibb was the grand marshal of that year's Boston Marathon. [25] That year's female winner, Atsede Baysa, gave Gibb her trophy; Gibb said that she would go to Baysa's native Ethiopia in 2017 and return it to her. [26]
Helen Obiri of Kenya wins the women’s division of the 2024 Boston Marathon. Hellen Obiri wins the women’s professional race after breaking away from the group during the final miles of the ...
Rosie M. Vivas [1] (née Ruiz; June 21, 1953 – July 8, 2019) [2] was a Cuban fraudster who, among other schemes, was declared the winner in the female category for the 84th Boston Marathon in 1980, only to have her title stripped eight days after the race when it was discovered that she had not run the entire course.
In the 2016 Boston Marathon, Jami Marseilles, an American, became the first female double amputee to finish the Boston Marathon. [ 39 ] [ 40 ] Bobbi Gibb , the first woman to have run the entire Boston Marathon (1966), was the grand marshal of the race. [ 41 ]
Uta Pippig (born 7 September 1965) is a retired German long-distance runner, and the first woman to officially win the Boston Marathon three consecutive times (1994–1996). She also won the Berlin Marathon three times (1990, 1992 and 1995); the 1993 New York City Marathon ; represented Germany at the Olympic Games in 1992 and 1996 , and won a ...
She was instrumental in influencing the U.S. Amateur Athletic Union, in late 1971, to increase its maximum distance for sanctioned women's races, leading to official participation by women in marathons, beginning at Boston in 1972. [9] Kuscsik was the only woman to participate in the first New York City Marathon in 1970. She did not feel well ...