#runninghistory — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #runninghistory, aggregated by home.social.
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#OnThisDay, 19 Apr 1967, Katherine Switzer becomes the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon as a registered runner, despite the organiser trying to stop her.
She ran it again in 2017, 50 years later.
#WomenInHistory #WomenInSport #RunningHistory #Histodons