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Close ✕Women run Boston, unofficially and then officially
1966–1972 · Recorded · mobility
The source states this happened, and its date is not in the future. The word the source used for it is historical.
Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb runs the 1966 Boston Marathon without an entry, joining the field at Hopkinton and finishing in about 3:21:40. In 1967 Kathrine Switzer enters as K. V. Switzer, receives a bib and is physically confronted by an official during the race. Women are admitted officially in 1972, after the AAU changes its rules and the BAA opens registration. The interval matters: the barrier was regulatory, not physical, and it fell six years after it had been demonstrated to be nonsense.
- Source
- Boston Athletic Association · https://www.baa.org/races/boston-marathon/history/
- Standing
- This record: partially verified · publisher: partially verified
- How it arrived
- Editorial — A dated record from the Richseen Atlas editorial corpus, written and cited by a curator. Not captured from anywhere, and not live.
- Where
- At a canonical Atlas object, placed and checked by a curator.
- Subject
- Boston Marathon · ORG_BOSTON_ATHLETIC_ASSOCIATION
Sources polled — usgs: newest 2026-09-10 · nws: newest 2026-08-31 · jpl-cneos: states no publication time, last reached 2026-09-10 · Official source connected · Basemap: Natural Earth (public domain) — marks are drawn only from sourced coordinates