Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to race with a dorsal in the marathon of Boston of 1967, registering like KV Switzer. She ran the race with the dorsal #261 and she crossed the finish line after 4 hours and 20 minutes. The race was destined exclusively to the male athletes so in the course of the race, one of the commissaries, Jock Semple, who was the co-director of the race, detecting that Kathrine Switzer was indeed a woman, tried to stop her, came out behind her and shouted at her: "Get out of my race and give me back my dorsal!". But the collaboration of her boyfriend and some runners, who escorted him to the finish, prevented the athlete from being withdrawn from the competition. Bobbi Gibb - who also ran the marathon that year (but without a dorsal), and who ended up ahead of Switzer - said he was sure that Semple had not only seen her that year, but also the year before, when she was the first woman to finish the marathon of Bostón ahead of more than 290 of...
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