Kathrine Switzer
Kathrine V. Switzer
K.V. Switzer, as she registered for the Boston Marathon 1967, is an athlete, author, commentator and advocate. Her remarkable accomplishment of being the first woman to officially enter and finish the Boston Marathon, despite being attacked by a race official because she was female, was captured in an iconic photo Time-Life identified as one of ‘The 100 photos that changed the world’. Kathrine, who has run 39 marathons and continues running today, won the New York City Marathon in 1974 and her 2:51 marathon in Boston was ranked 6th in the world at the time. Possibly her most remarkable success, however, was the tireless and strategic march to get the IOC to add marathon to the women’s program; achieving this feat in the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. In our program we will hear more about these exciting events and her new project, 261 Fearless Inc. a global movement that empowers women through the vehicle of running and her plans to run the 2017 Boston Marathon
