You have a registered email address and password on pressherald.com, but we are unable to locate a paid subscription attached to these credentials. Please verify your current subsription or subscribe.
Hopkinton, Mass, April 19, 1967: Who says chivalry is dead? When a girl listed as "K. Switzer from Syracuse" found herself about to be thrown out of normally all-male Boston Marathon today, husky companion Thomas Miller of Syracuse threw block that tossed race official out of the running instead. Sequence shows Jock Semple, official, moving in to intercept Miss Switzer, then being bounced himself by Miller. Boston Herald via Associated Press
Kathrine Switzer and the Boston Marathon -
Boston Herald via Associated Press |
of
|
Share this photo
Hopkinton, Mass, April 19, 1967: Who says chivalry is dead? When a girl listed as "K. Switzer from Syracuse" found herself about to be thrown out of normally all-male Boston Marathon today, husky companion Thomas Miller of Syracuse threw block that tossed race official out of the running instead. Sequence shows Jock Semple, official, moving in to intercept Miss Switzer, then being bounced himself by Miller.
Show
Hide
Kathrine Switzer and the Boston Marathon -
Associated Press |
of
|
Share this photo
Caption from 1966: Kathy Switzer in Lynchburg, Va., as a member of the Lynchburg College track team. The 19-year-old sophomore hopes this is the week she will leave the boys behind when she competes in the 880 or the mile run. Then she'll try to outdistance some distaff opposition as a contestant in the "Miss Lynchburg" beauty pageant.
Show
Hide
Kathrine Switzer and the Boston Marathon -
Associated Press |
of
|
Share this photo
Kathrine Switzer poses near her home in White Plains, N.Y.
Show
Hide
Kathrine Switzer and the Boston Marathon -
Still from PBS video MAKERS: Women Who Make America |
of
|
Share this photo
In April 1967, while running the Boston Marathon, Switzer was attacked by race official Jock Semple.
Show
Hide
Kathrine Switzer and the Boston Marathon -
|
of
|
Share this photo
Switzer's boyfriend, Tom Miller, a hammer thrower at Syracuse running with Switzer, knocked Semple aside. This photo was selected as one of Life Magazine's "100 Photos That Changed the World."
Show
Hide
Kathrine Switzer and the Boston Marathon -
Associated Press |
of
|
Share this photo
Kathrine Switzer in 1980 in her New York office. She was the architect and guiding force behind the Women's International Running Circuit. She also worked to get the marathon and other distance running events for men included in the 1984 Olympics.
Show
Hide
Kathrine Switzer and the Boston Marathon -
Associated Press |
of
|
Share this photo
Kathrine Switzer, shown in New York in 1979, was instrumental in breaking the sex barrier in the Boston Marathon.
Show
Hide
Kathrine Switzer and the Boston Marathon -
Associated Press |
of
|
Share this photo
Kathrine Switzer, possibly the only marathon runner to be mugged by another runner during training, jogs in White Plains, N.Y., on April 8, 1975, while training for the Boston Marathon. Switzer was attacked the previous fall while living in New York City's Lower East Side and running in a park by the East River.
Show
Hide
Kathrine Switzer and the Boston Marathon -
Associated Press |
of
|
Share this photo
Former Olympic gold medalist Donna deVarona, left, skier Suzy Chaffee, center, and Kathrine Switzer, the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, chat June 1, 1981, at the opening of the Women's Sports Hall of Fame in New York City.