![]() Just imagine what’s gonna happen in 50 years!” For more world news on, please click here. Writing on Facebook after completing the 26-mile run, Switzer said: “I finished, like I did 50 years ago. Included in those were members of the 261 Fearless Boston Marathon Team, an organisation Switzer founded after racing in 1967 to empower women in athletics. Switzer was far from the only woman taking part in 2017, with more than 12,300 others having started. Kathrine Switzer Was The First Woman To Run The Boston Marathon (1967). At the time, in 1967, Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) rules stated women were not. At the point on the historic course where Jock Semple grabbed a hold of her, she live streamed on Facebook, recalling that day: Fifty years ago, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to officially finish the Boston Marathon. Yesterday morning, wearing the very same number which was almost ripped off her five decades earlier, the now 70-year-old Switzer completed the Boston Marathon for a ninth time. If that girl were my daughter, I would spank her.” ![]() Sports Illustrated/Getty Images By Chris Greenberg. ![]() We have no space in the marathon for any unauthorised person, even a man. Kathrine Switzer (261) in action as BAA co-director Jock Semple attempts to tear off Switzer's bib during the 1967 Boston Marathon. ![]() (Harry Trask / Associated Press) (Harry Trask /. I don’t make the rules, but I try to carry them out. Boston Marathon official Jock Semple tries to eject Kathrine Switzer (261) in 1967, but Tom Miller runs interference and blocks him out. “Unless we have rules, society will be in chaos. “Women can’t run in the marathon because the rules forbid it,” he said. Shortly after the marathon, Boston Athletic Association director Will Cloney was asked to offer his opinion on a female runner registering and completing the historically male race. The race director Jock Semple tried unsuccessfully to remove Kathrine from. Switzer went on to finish the race at a time of 4h20m, a full hour behind Bobbi Gibb, the female winner on the day, but who ran without registering. In 1967, Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to finish the race wearing an. ![]() A few miles into the race, Semple broke onto the course and tried to rip her number off, shouting: “Get the hell out of my race and give me those numbers!” In the ensuing fracas, Miller, a 106kg former football player and hammer thrower, pushed the race official out of the way, sending him flying into the footpath. ![]()
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