Here is a link to a Critical Reading Skills worksheet that you can use for middle school students.Switzer’s coach, Arnie Briggs, and boyfriend at the time, Tom Miller, were running alongside her, and quickly ran interference.Here is a link to a Critical Reading Skills worksheet that you can use for elementary school students.Ask Kathrine a question about her life and impact here.Learn more about running and get involved with Girls on the Run which helps girls around the USA learn to run.Do you know anyone who has shown great courage? How so? What impact did it have on others?.Why did Kathrine do what she did? What impact did it have on the world?.Check out more IMK stories about running and runners.Here are other IMK stories and quotes about courage.Learn more about Kathrine, her career and impact on Wikipedia and her own website.Check out more about her very inspiring story, thanks to SC Featured:

She also helped make the Women’s Marathon an official Olympic sport!īut it was her courage and perseverance in completing the first marathon, in Boston, that has made her a role model for women around the world. Kathrine went on to participate in more races and even won the New York City Marathon a few years later. Later, in 1972, the rules were finally changed to allow women to run in the Boston Marathon.

But a friend of hers stopped him from doing so! Kathrine went on to finish the race and become the first woman to ever complete a marathon! So he ran after her, in the middle of the race, and tried to make her stop running. The rules stated that women were not allowed to run in the race. In the middle of the Boston Marathon, the race director noticed her and was alarmed. This was before the rules even allowed for women to run in the race! But Kathrine was able to obtain an official entry to the race.

In 1967, Kathrine became the first woman ever to compete in the Boston Marathon. So when her college coach told her that a woman could not finish a (26.2 mile) marathon, she set out to prove him wrong!

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