Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Women's Sports - Paperback
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Languages:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306825651ISBN-10:306825651UPC:9780306825651Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Sports, Running & Jogging, Personal MemoirsSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCK2X01DE2
A new edition of a sports icon's memoir, coinciding with the 50th anniversary of Kathrine Switzer's historic running of the Boston Marathon as the first woman to run. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to officially run what was then the all-male Boston Marathon, infuriating one of the event's directors who attempted to violently eject her. In one of the most iconic sports moments, Switzer escaped and finished the race. She made history-and is poised to do it again on the fiftieth anniversary of that initial race, when she will run the 2017 Boston Marathon at age 70. Now a spokesperson for Reebok, Switzer is also the founder of 261 Fearless, a foundation dedicated to creating opportunities for women on all fronts, as this groundbreaking sports hero has done throughout her life. "Kathrine Switzer is the Susan B. Anthony of women's marathoning."-Joan Benoit Samuelson, first Olympic gold medalist in the women's marathon
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Da Capo PressISBN-13:9780306825651ISBN-10:306825651UPC:9780306825651Book Category:Biography & Autobiography, Sports & RecreationBook Subcategory:Sports, Running & Jogging, Personal MemoirsSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 1.10 inchesWeight:0.7Product ID:SCK2X01DE2
Kathrine Switzer, one of the greatest icons in sports, has been an authority on running and women's fitness for over forty years. She is best known for pioneering the official entrance of women into the marathon, beginning with her epoch-making run in the previously all-male Boston Marathon in 1967, and went on to become a world-ranked athlete and the winner of the 1974 New York Marathon. Switzer is an Emmy-award winning television commentator, having covered a continuous string of the sport's major events, including the Boston, New York, Pittsburgh, and Los Angeles marathons, as well as the Olympic and Goodwill Games. Her first book, Running and Walking for Women Over 40, has sold over 100,000 copies. She lives in New Paltz, NY.
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