Learn more about Kathrine, her career and impact on Wikipedia and her own website.Check out more about her very inspiring story, thanks to SC Featured: She also helped make the Women’s Marathon an official Olympic sport!īut it was her courage and perseverance in completing the first marathon, in Boston, that has made her a role model for women around the world. Kathrine went on to participate in more races and even won the New York City Marathon a few years later. Later, in 1972, the rules were finally changed to allow women to run in the Boston Marathon. But a friend of hers stopped him from doing so! Kathrine went on to finish the race and become the first woman to ever complete a marathon!

So he ran after her, in the middle of the race, and tried to make her stop running. The rules stated that women were not allowed to run in the race. In the middle of the Boston Marathon, the race director noticed her and was alarmed. This was before the rules even allowed for women to run in the race! But Kathrine was able to obtain an official entry to the race. In 1967, Kathrine became the first woman ever to compete in the Boston Marathon. So when her college coach told her that a woman could not finish a (26.2 mile) marathon, she set out to prove him wrong!

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