Now 78, Switzer reran the Boston Marathon in 2017 at age 70 to mark the 50th anniversary of her famous first run. Her talk at ...

Runners will be hitting the streets of all five boroughs on Sunday for the 2024 New York City Marathon. The 53rd annual race will feature a remarkable milestone: the 50th anniversary of Kathrine ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- It was just 50 years ago that women still weren't allowed to run marathons. Kathrine Switzer thought that was silly. A journalism student at Syracuse at the time, she entered the 1967 ...

Women haven't exactly crossed the finish line when it comes to gender equality, but we've certainly come a long way since Kathrine Switzer first hit the pavement at the Boston Marathon. It was 1967 ...

PROVIDENCE — At the two-mile mark of the 1967 Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer heard the scraping sound of leather-soled shoes coming up fast behind her. “I turned instinctively,” Switzer recalled on ...

BOSTON (CBS) -- Kathrine Switzer has finished the Boston Marathon, 50 years afters she broke the barrier for women wanting to run in the race. Switzer registered for the Boston Marathon in 1967 using ...

Kathrine Switzer’s No. 261 bib shows the signs of the times: tears at the corner where a Boston Marathon official tried to rip it off her mid-race. Switzer became the first woman to officially run the ...

James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL. Kathrine Switzer was told that running a marathon was impossible. She was mocked, ...

Men attempt to stop Kathrine Switzer as she runs the 1967 Boston Marathon as the first woman to compete as a participant with a number, inspiring the name of her new activewear brand, 261 Fearless ...

The motivation to run comes in many forms. It can be in the instinct to run away or flee from danger; it can be the urge to run toward something -- a lifelong goal or the ubiquitous finish line; or it ...

This week, as she has for three decades, Kathrine Switzer will make her happy homecoming at the Boston Marathon. She'll unpack in a hotel, start interviewing elite women runners and prep for her ...

Kathrine Switzer knows history. Or so she thought. Opting to extend an annual stay in New Zealand – her husband’s homeland – to more than two years due to COVID-19 restrictions, Switzer tore into a ...