The story of Kathrine Switzer - The first female to run the Boston Marathon

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Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon despite being attacked by the race director who tried to physically pull her out of the race because she was a woman. Switzer remembers the famous day and explains how it revolutionised women’s running around the world.
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[@Vventure23]

WOW. Sitting here gearing up to train for my second marathon... Can't believe there was a time when that wasn't even allowed. Man. What this woman did for the lives of people like me who weren't even born yet... I feel so much gratitude

[@yoursleepparalysisdemon1828]

that’s just common history. most people know women used to not be able to do stuff like this.

[@meaningfulmakings]

Roberta Gibb was the first woman to run the marathon so the title of this video is misleading. Roberta hid in a hedge and joined the race once it started. She ran it an hour quicker than this woman. Brave women the pair of them.

[@annabellenolan2682]

she's damn near 75 and looks amazing! I guess I'll try running

[@jamiethetechgeek]

It's been 2 years since your comment. Did you start running?

[@atashacornelius89]

@@jamiethetechgeek I want to know too

[@bittersweetlily]

The title should match your description: she was the first woman to OFFICIALLY run the Boston Marathon. However, the first woman to ever run the Boston Marathon was Bobbi Gibb, who ran the race a full hour faster than Switzer. Bobbi was a pioneer in women’s athletics; let’s not erase her or discount her because she didn’t run with a number.

[@vesmar2001]

I agree. Roberta Gibb was a pioneer. And she was much faster, by the way.

[@almighty_milkman4883]

Thank you for the comment I was about to say the same! Fact that Bobbi did that makes that guy even more ridiculous for trying to physically intervene 🤪🤪🤪

[@thegrubbygreencapsskinner8593]

She ran it 3hr 20m the year before... Legend.

[@thegrubbygreencapsskinner8593]

She would have run it even faster but her new addidas running shoes gave her terrible blisters. She ran before that in nurses shoes 😁 Legend.

[@stillnotfinancial7992]

Gibbs story of the men being supportive doesn't fit the narrative of dividing men and women. Everything is controlled and pushed for a reason, and the reasons are rarely benevolent.

[@AroldHoutterseat]

*The World on its present time is dying in need of more Kathrine Switzer, people that are brave enough to prove something for a Change.*

[@bobleponge1853]

The most fragile thing on this planet: men who fear woman for being human.

[@dtkp33355]

The most fragile thing on this planet is people who judge the past according to today's standards.

[@Berrygirl6784]

U donno the full story this is why women ego suck... men fear women misunderstand men not treating them as human lamo...

[@Berrygirl6784]

​@@dtkp33355also judging a pic not knowing full story...

[@AndiDerCoach]

Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1966

[@southbug27]

Thanks for sharing that information. I’ve never heard that before.

[@davidhermann8639]

Great personality, great story. It's quite shocking how ignorant the mainstream culture used to be in the mid 1960s. Learnings: Just keep running forward. And bodycheck the idiots on your way as they are trying to slow you down!

[@djsensibo]

Enough respect to This Woman. Respect to All Women 🙏🏾...

[@arnrocarnroc]

We don’t normally think of women’s fight for equality during the civil rights era movement, but here it is. Normally we only images from that era are of women screaming hysterically as the Beetles disembark a plane. Good to see another side.

[@violin245]

The treatment of female athletes is not as bad as this, but still not great. And I'm not even talking about pay, female athletes are demonized just for being female athletes(cue comments on any female related video on sky) . Thank you sky for helping to elevate and showcase womens sport and thank you to the brave women like Switzer who have competed and continue despite the environment. Hopefully, life will improve for female athletes every generation

[@hhouser9783]

No one wants to watch mediocre athletes. That is why the WNBA is EMPTY. Lmao. World champion female soccer team......beaten by 15 year olds boys. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 it's called DRAW!!

[@mparik]

Huh? How are women demonized for being athletes? I cant say ive seen that.

[@Nenerii]

@@mparikBoy i bet you feel silly after the Simone Biles drama

[@Nenerii]

@@mparikor Imane Khelif, the female boxer

[@mparik]

@@Nenerii no. Why would I?

[@Soboba.Fett69]

I've seen the picture for years and never thought to hear her story. Thanks for sharing.

[@Music-pq8cm]

As a male cyclist with over 42 years of cycling, I am totally stoked to see female cyclists (biological females … real women). I celebrate within to see women as stoked to cycle as me. I’m also a surfer and the same applies there. Motorcycle riding too!

[@kyoung6229]

Such an icon. Did so much for woman kind ❤

[@tanialou6899]

She is a leader and an inspiration

[@daytodaylivin4418]

One of the worst parts of this story is the fact that the press pretty much treid to provoke a violent reaction out of people just so that they would have a story at the cost of this brave woman….

[@HurricanePatrick]

I'm trying to wrap my head around what's wrong with a woman running in a race, glad I never have to find out

[@Elsith01]

I can't believe this happened only a few years before I was born.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

And THIS is precisely why 'transwomen' should not be allowed to compete in women's sport - namely because actual women fought hard to get to where they are.

[@craigwaters1508]

Well done

[@nidgeontour257]

Very inspiring!!

[@bobbyelliott6666]

Full praise and respect for this woman 👏

[@Fiona-zd5vj]

I don’t get how the caption at the front said it was 5 years before women were officially allowed to run in the race, yet the following year she had a number, does that mean she just kept entering as a guy?

[@thomaspenderel]

Kathrine Switzer, what a great story.

[@melissacastro5006]

Iconic❤

[@UNAI.EMERY.]

Currently eating a tesco triple chicken sandwich

[@geoffreyjohnson2240]

You doing cheese and onion Walkers with them Dean?

[@RunD.Ones1s]

Funnily enough women are actually better at ultramarathon running than men because of their higher body fat %

[@zimmerking2323]

And now it's time for women athletes to speak up about biological males competing in female events. Ms. Switzer?

[@southbug27]

Amen. And it’s time for us to cancel the feminists, Democrats, & athletes like Megan Rapinoe who are trying to take sports away from girls & women in the future. Now that she’s retired she’ll gladly help the misogynists & narcissists destroy female sports so she can virtue signal to the woke idiots who are in power. That’s an absolutely unforgivable stance she’s taken.

[@lauramcknight2321]

If the trans population in professional sport becomes a significant portion, I'll consider it. Until that day, I don't give a damn.

[@rendelltron]

Terrible how young she is. You’d have thought this was the 40’s or something

[@BachTantra]

Is there a link for her website or contact details ?

[@kekejefferson9219]

Needed an actual apology.

[@shansobel]

Why isn’t this a movie ?

[@lebrenda]

What a legend! Beautiful!

[@MsMickey541]

We need to remember this today.

[@smalliebiggs3836]

Great job woman of the world 🌎

[@honeybadger6313]

She wasn’t the first female. That was Bobbi Gibb in 1967

[@hbdragon88]

First woman in the Boston Marathon to register (Gibb was denied) and have a bib number.

[@benjaminbai2256]

She is a heroine,she has changed history

[@SherLizz]

? The first womam who ran the Boston Marathon was Bobbi Gibb in 1966.

[@domijean8023]

The youngest looking 75yo ever too. 😎💛

[@louiem2]

Pioneer

[@janoyantonio9585]

Which year was it she ran?

[@Hamilzisgood]

1967

[@janoyantonio9585]

@@Hamilzisgood to revisit that is just awesome

[@cbmtrx]

"a leggy lady"! omg

[@cbjgdicad1]

Looks like that guy took the Alsatians numbers as well

[@zerohour7635]

👍👍👍

[@rockymarciano6750]

Well in K - 261 👍🏻

[@Blake_1]

This is why it’s important to protect women’s sport from trans integration

[@OdieD]

+1

[@hhouser9783]

So she crashes an all MENS race and now wants an only women's race. The hypocrisy is so thick you can cut it with a knife. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@samsungsnake101]

Bro your mind is poisoned. The story is about how integration is good.

[@Blake_1]

@@samsungsnake101 I’m not struggling to recognise the literal meaning of the video? Im making a broader statement to protect what has been created and thus returning to the literal meaning of this video. How can it be poisoned when it is more poignant than ever right now?

[@samsungsnake101]

@@Blake_1 you've been tricked by propaganda to think this is a big deal. They're probably less than 50 trans athletes in the whole of the United States. Trans people were a tiny minority of the United States but because of conservative media they are made out to be this big bad boogyman. I will agree with you in some sense there is a conversation to be had about trans people in sports but most people who bring this up don't want to have this conversation. They just want to find another way to attack trans people.

[@jamesjohnston9754]

We have come a full circle, and the weirdest thing is only alpha men are feminists now

[@vanillagorilla8738]

Nice to see a white queen getting some love for once

[@naturalmystic67]

That was half-passable Geordie...

[@agyeimaxwell.]

👌🔥🇬🇭💕🇬🇭

[@Magical_Bs]

OK

[@eleanorbernal8184]

❤️

[@tommaheady5230]

She was a bird

[@TMK883]

Holy a kiwi won 🤣

[@footballofficial7857]

Messi + Neymar + Ronaldo's game. They can make me a friend if they want. Need some friends. I seek your cooperation. ❤️❤️

[@sloebone7399]

It was a race for men who qualified for the race. She crashed it and the organizer took issue. Women can run as far as they want whenever they want but that particular event that day was a men’s race.

[@mar.a842]

It’s obvious you didn’t do your research. At the time, there were no women’s events in the marathon; the first all female marathon wasn’t held until the mid-1970s in Germany, and women could not compete in the Olympics in the marathon distance until 1984.

[@kevkevin8177]

They see only 1 man instead the rest were supportive Definition of feminism