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  2. Kathrine Switzer - Wikipedia

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    Kathrine Virginia Switzer (born January 5, 1947) [1] is an American marathon runner, author, and television commentator. [ 2 ] In the year 1967, she became the first woman to run the Boston Marathon as an officially registered competitor. [ 3 ]

  3. Roger Robinson (academic) - Wikipedia

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    In 1983, Robinson met runner and author Kathrine Switzer while speaking at a running national championship in New Zealand. They married in 1987. Robinson has two children from a previous marriage. [5] In 2006, Robinson and Switzer co-authored 26.2: Marathon Stories, an illustrated history of the marathon. [22]

  4. Jock Semple - Wikipedia

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    John Duncan Semple (October 26, 1903 – March 10, 1988) was a Scottish-American runner, physical therapist, trainer, and sports official. In 1967, as a race official for the Boston Marathon, he attempted to stop the 20-year-old marathon runner Kathrine Switzer from continuing to run and knocked down her coach when he tried to protect her.

  5. Pioneering women marathon runners like Kathrine Switzer ... - AOL

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    Pioneering woman marathoner Kathrine Switzer holds her medal after finishing the 2017 Boston Marathon, exactly fifty years after her historic appearance in the Marathon, when as the first woman to ...

  6. Kathrine Switzer breaks down her Boston Marathon moment ... - AOL

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    Kathrine Switzer looks back on becoming a groundbreaking runner. Need help? Call us! 800-290-4726

  7. Bobbi Gibb - Wikipedia

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    In 1967, she finished nearly an hour ahead of Kathrine Switzer. In 1968 Gibb finished first among five women that ran the marathon. It was not until late 1971, pursuant to a petition to the Amateur Athletic Union by Nina Kuscsik, that the AAU changed its rules and began to sanction women's division marathons. Kuscsik won the initial AAU ...

  8. Semple - Wikipedia

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    Billy Semple (born 1946), Scottish football player; Carol Semple (born 1948), American golfer; Frederick Semple (1872–1927), American golfer and tennis player; Jock Semple (1903–1988), Scottish-American runner and sports official who physically tried to stop Kathrine Switzer from competing in the 1967 Boston Marathon

  9. File:Kathrine Switzer, Boston Marathon.jpg - Wikipedia

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    English: Runner Kathrine Switzer attacked by race official Jock Semple while running in the 1967 Boston Marathon. Original caption: Who Said Chivalry Is Dead? ... A girl listed only as "K. Switzer of Syracuse" found herself about to be thrown out of the normally all-male Boston Marathon Wednesday when a husky companion Thomas Miller of Syracuse, threw block that tossed race official out of the ...