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Nina Kuscsik, marathon pioneer and Boston winner, dies

Nina Kuscsik, marathon pioneer and first (official) winner of Boston women’s race, has died

Nina Kuscsik has died at the age of 86. Kuscsik campaigned for women’s inclusion in long-distance running and won the Boston Marathon the first year that they were officially allowed to enter into the race.

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Nina Kuscsik, Boston Marathon's first official women's champion, dies at 86

Laura Gaynor captured this incredible video as a tornado tore across a road in Nebraska on June 16. Andrew Pihlbald, 45, who coaches a U17 boys' soccer team from Jamestown, collapsed after going into cardiac arrest during the second half of a June 4 match at Wilson High School in Wilson, New York.

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Nina Kuscsik, marathon pioneer and Boston winner, dies at 86

Nina Kuscsik, who campaigned for women's inclusion in long-distance running and then won the Boston Marathon the first year that they were officially allowed to enter into the race, has died. She was 86.

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The forgotten story of how the Boston Marathon almost collapsed

a longtime track-and-field official who founded the Boston College women’s track program and was affiliated with the Marathon for more than 50 years. Medoff, who died in 2021, denied any ...

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How women runners debunked myths about the sport and made running their own

In the 2023 Boston Marathon, Hellen Obiri ... rumors spread that many of the competitors had collapsed. As a result, the 800 was eliminated for women and wasn’t reinstated until 1960, while ...

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No, running won’t make you infertile. 8 sexist myths women runners disproved

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Boston Marathon fund for research on fitness, endurance started, here's how it'll help

and then collapsed. "The marathon distance was later ... Monday, April 17, 1972: Women were allowed to officially run the Boston Marathon, and Nina Kuscsik emerged from an eight-member field ...

The Atlantic10mon

A Dam-Break Moment for Women in Olympics

Even after the Boston Marathon created an official category for women in 1972 ... or lack of interest—began to collapse. The very next games, the IOC added a 10,000-meter race.

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Nearly 60 years after Boston Marathon run, Kathrine Switzer still inspires women to run

An all-women's running group co-founded by Kathrine Switzer, who made history as the first woman to officially finish the Boston Marathon in 1967, is helping women break barriers and proving ...

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