Switzer and wiggled out of the required physical by saying she had been cleared earlier. Switzer entered the race five years before that day. The reason the picture seems to be making the rounds is that when the 116th Boston Marathon gets underway in two weeks, the Boston Athletic Association will mark four decades since women were allowed to run the world's oldest annual marathon. "Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers," she says he told her. The year was 1967 and as Switzer tells it, Semple jumped off the media truck and began yelling at her. Kathrine Switzer told her story to producer Caro Rolando for an episode of The Daily Rally podcast. That's Switzer, of Syracuse, being pushed off the Boston Marathon course by Jock Semple, one of the race organizers. More than 50 years ago, this 20-year-old became the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon, even while organizers tried to pull her off the course. Kathrine Switzer of Syracuse found herself about to be thrown out of the normally all-male Boston Marathon when a husky companion, Thomas Miller of Syracuse, threw a block that tossed a race official out of the running instead. Download Book 'Marathon Woman: Running the Race to Revolutionize Womens Sports' by Author 'Kathrine Switzer' in PDF EPUB.
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