Kathrine Switzer🏃
Kathrine Virginia "Kathy" Switzer (Amberg, January 5, 1947) is a writer, television commentator and American athlete, best known for being the first woman to run a marathon with a bib number in the 1967 Boston Marathon. as KV Switzer, start from the finish line with the number 261 and get to cross the final line after 4 hours and 20 minutes.
In the course of the race, one of the commissioners, called Jock Semple, who was co-director of the race, detecting that Kathrine Switzer was, in effect, a woman, tried to stop her, left behind her and shouted: "Get out of here. my race and give me back the number! " But the collaboration of her boyfriend and some runners, who escorted her to the finish, prevented the athlete from being withdrawn from the competition.
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