In April 1967, a man attacked the only woman in the field at the legendary Boston Marathon. The photos of the attack went around the world and made Kathrine Switzer the most famous long-distance runner of her time
Kathrine Switzer’s life would have been different if a man hadn’t tried to box her off the track. Since that bitterly cold morning of April 19, 1967, she has been speaking on television, writing bestsellers and giving newspaper interviews. She fills sports halls with her lectures. She keeps telling how race director John Semple tries to grab her sweatshirt from behind, but only gets a scrap of her race number. How her boyfriend at the time, a muscle-bound football player, pushes Semple aside. How she still has to justify herself decades later for wanting to run a marathon as a woman.
