And i saw the space and this man grabbed me like this and he screamed get the hell out of my race. It was big we didnt know how big it would become. With is this and become one of the great things is in sports and sports history lets be honest with. The. Boston massachusetts a city on the east coast of the United States the worlds biggest and most important market is held here this year will be the one hundred twenty first time. Bus ness Boston Marathon because its the whole tradition its the oldest marathon in the world is that its always nice some of the time the. Thirteen thousand women now participate in the Boston Marathon thats an incredible think of. Katherine switzer is seventy years old and yet shes still the star at this years Boston Marathon. She talks about the event she experienced fifty years ago she sought after everywhere including here at burns to sixty one Running Group named after capturing switzers famous number from the n one nine hundred sixty seven. Then. When she talks about running its always about life as well shes an inspiration to us all on. A walk with Katherine Switzer. Were heading to the finish line of the Boston Marathon. I dont show to you. In a few days time she wants to run this race again fifty years after the original event. Im watching it and then they watch the race right there at. Nine hundred sixty six i heard from a friend of my heroes Cross Country about an event called the Boston Marathon and it lodged in my brain that someday i would really love to do that and i said to him hey did a girl run the Boston Marathon too and he said you. Yes in one thousand nine hundred sixty six bobby get jumped out of the bushes and ran the race. Bobby give had run the boston mass in one year before katherine without an official number she got onto the track from a hiding place and i said well thats great see a woman can do it twenty six miles forty two kilometers sure. Her father encouraged the Young Katherine to do Long Distance running despite the many prejudices. People still whispered about the medical implication you know that maybe youre going to turn into a man maybe you are a man or that youre going to get big legs or that your uterus is going to fall out youll never have children all of these things were myths that held women back and made them afraid and also made men say we have to protect women we cant let them do these Long Distance things we dont want them to hurt themselves. In one nine hundred sixty seven only men were officially allowed to run the marathon and yet so its a registered from boston so i filled out the entry form but i signed it of course how i signed my name kavi switzer and when the entry form when they thought it was from a man i didnt know that it wasnt intentional i was only going to boston to run. The beginning the beginning of the race the day was like no other Boston Marathon zero marathons we get went to the starting line is so are some people some people we didnt know interviewed came back. We we went and then they we went on a bus a precipice after about two or three miles it warmed up and everyone was taking off the hoods the buses the buses going by a pack and suddenly a boston writer said. Jock theres a woman in your race. Jock wish. You could do serious the you dont know what to say yes he said stop the bus stop the bus off of this bus behind me came one of the co race directors his name was jock sample and the men on the bus the journalists had been teasing him saying hey look theres a girl in your race shes wearing big numbers jock sample jumped off the truck and went to grab the number and as he did that i actually didnt see him coming and i didnt hear him until the last minute when i heard these leather shoes in a different pace from the rubber shoes and i turned like this and i saw this face and as i turned i got away from him then he grabbed my shirt was pulling it and went for the one on the back and in fact this is the one that was on the back and he caught the outside corner right here and with that my boyfriend who happened to be a two hundred thirty five pound ex allamerican Football Player came running full tilt and hit the official like this jock and sent him flying. I saw tom hit him and at the same time then i saw tom hit him i saw him come flying across the front of me and i actually i i must misremembered this because the video doesnt show this but i remember hitting him with my knee was really really embarrassing and scary i was really quite terrified i didnt know what to do i felt like i had stepped into some sacred place and messed it up somehow i felt terribly unwelcome and i just for a split Second Thought maybe i should step often and go home and then i thought no if i if i step off the course if i dont finish this race. I dont stay in the race no matter what people are going to say women cant do this when it happened we werent frightened on the press bus we were taking notes like crazy you know its the we know there was this is big it was big we didnt know how big it would become it was is this a become one of the great things in school and sports and sports history lets be honest with the the rise of women to equality. One journalist said what are you trying to prove and i said im not trying to prove anything but i will tell you something that one day women is running is going to be as popular and publicize a bill as mens and i said ill be back at boston. It was the start of a long battle for equality it wasnt until nine hundred seventy two that women were officially allowed to participate in the Boston Marathon. In germany sports physicians out front aachen pave the way for the womens marathon aachen prove that women had more in junior its. Just a little of the form of female mouth and world record holder christa violins each and her former coach Manfred Stefani meet again in the late sixtys christa violin sic was a medium distance runner. My friend stephanie has kept all the articles from those days. From miss got there were no Long Distances for me back then i ran the longest distance available that was fifteen hundred meters and eight hundred before that in one nine hundred sixty seven when the first women participated in marathons i had heard of this event but i hadnt taken any interest in it were interested in the. Women women running women running a marathon is not an entirely new phenomenon in recent years bills have snuck into such competitions from time to time a competition reserved for men since four hundred ninety b. C. But those were isolated cases however that the strong sex accepted with generosity in a benign smile they were a curiosity. And i. Always thought women should run marathons and that they would be better at them relatively speaking than now or does he really pushed that force yet he was also the first to introduce the womens marathon in one nine hundred seventy three i prefer to earn stock and came forward with medical evidence that showed women had natural capacity and endurance and stamina he was a doctor a physician so his work and his research gave us so much credibility and that was an amazing discovery that helped convince many many people in a simple way that women could be superior and fun are can conducted further research into the jurors capacity of women i know you believe that women can cope with these stresses can you explain that. So first of course women can cope with these stresses their muscle composition makes them superior here and then have too much muscle mass and therefore too much water only twenty three percent of the womans body weight is muscle that means less water she has more subcutaneous fat reserves. Valve neo is a small town on the lower right im fine arkan put on the first marathon just for women here. I dated. He made phone calls and convinced women to participate the aim was to prove that women could run a marathon it was part of womens emancipation a month apart see on. The new marathon distance was perfect for cristoval and seek me coffer schlager she started her Long Distance running career in the seventys. Coached by her fellow club member Manfred Stefani chris accomplish lega has achieved incredible results in ten minutes before the finish line she separated from the leading pack and created a lead of almost two kilometers. Just before crossing the finish line she looks like shes running a few hundred meters on a training run looking completely fresh and running with excellent style shes heading towards a new european record youre not completely exhausted no not anywhere but dr van auken this confirms your theory that women are also suited to running marathons definitely i follow the race particularly over the last ten thousand meters during which most runners performance drops she was the fastest. I remember two men accompanied us some bicycles and always slow this down so we wouldnt run too fast and would reach the finish line you really felt like the press was just waiting for us to drop like flies but we all crossed the finish line just fine. It was a milestone for many years we were leaders and womens marathon running along with the United States and that america was our risk optimists like there were no other americans but half a year later dr fun and invited to participate in the Boston Marathon which he paid for two months yet the first time i think i heard a knocking was when an a. P. B. Set a world record in the womens marathon and i was so excited to read about this and then it seemed that somebody else from germany was always coming through the great christa fallen sick and then he brought them to boston and they performed so credibly well here yes it was amazing and we were really all envious and wondering what was going on in germany and if we could be a part of it so many at least women will acknowledge that as one is on par with the man. This impressive demonstration by the two hundred sixty two women runners from all five continents cause the International Association of athletics federations to send two observers about new york to see whether this marathon. Discipline was a worthy olympic sport for women. Attention around the subject group in one nine hundred seventy nine women were running their own races the way to the Olympic Games seems to be open. From that we realize that women would participate if they were given an event that was not intimidating and welcoming to them and i thought this is the way to get the marathon in the Olympic Games. The goal was clear the american women wanted to take part in the Olympic Games and dispel the prejudices once and for all in one thousand nine hundred eighty nine the german sports show thats our sports studio even broadcast a Panel Discussion on the matter. Back in boston at the finishing line. So the greeks so Catherine Smith says meeting one of todays race directors a conversation about the preparations to the race. Who to pick three time winner of the Boston Marathon is in the press center memories of a time when women running the marathon wasnt commonly accepted jet. Skiing opposition talking points included the safety and health of women if you allow some women to run then thousands of women will want to run many things werent that accepted back then and these barriers to be broken down fast yes most. Vendors. Have trained switzer placed second in boston in one hundred seventy five. She traveled around the world. Los angeles in one thousand nine hundred four. The Opening Ceremony of the of the pick games. There was a new entry among the competitions the womens marathon. I had invested so much of my life in motion and work into trying to have this moment happened and here it was it was happening and it was happening so beautifully. Fifty women run a stood at the start line in the santa monica stadium ready to run forty two kilometers. Just. I think one or two laps i forget how many at the beginning and then they went out and went around town and wherever. Someone high above let an american win john Benoit Samuelson a great great writer and another person who pushed very hard for womens equality. And we watched joan Benoit Samuelson break away very early in the race and theres that moment you think is this a bad mistake because shes with very experienced people but she took a huge risk and it turned out to be one of the most amazing races in history. But who could ever forget her running through the streets of los angeles and heading to the Olympic Stadium and you know theres that tunnel that you have to go through into the stadium and as she headed toward that tunnel i was thinking how much shes like womens history in them because shes outside of the tunnel and then she goes into the darkness and when she comes out of that dark and shes going to be in a stadium that is going to erupt. She took the race right onto the track ran an incredibly fast lap and crossed the finish line to you know ninety thousand people screaming. And i thought this moment is important is giving women the right to vote. I said to make poetry Everyone Wants this race the most is going to win it was my day at the stars were aligned for me. Then. I just ran my own race. This is the the payoff known. Twenty minutes after the last person came and another woman came and go to the real last a swiss woman and. Anderson. And. She was apparently missed. The water station she she had no no sugar in her body. Camera stayed on her for six minutes as she went around the stadium and it seemed agonizing it seemed like you know years and the crowd was cheering her and cheering her and willing her but the whole time i was also thinking whats going to happen now are people going to say women are too weak and too fragile after all it was a really difficult evening for me and i just whipped from this high to the slow. I felt so sorry for Gabriel Anderson because she was an incredible athlete it was the next day she was bright as a button went to a press conference recovered and instead of people saying that was a terrible thing they made her a heroine and i said yes maybe equality is also about being allowed to be exhausted in public. The day of the Boston Marathon last Easter MondayKatherine Switzer early in the morning before the start. Of. The race starts here in hopkinton fifty years ago it was a journey into the unknown for a country in switzerland. Today shes participating in the race with a round one hundred women from her two six one fearless movement. On. The road to the start her number two six one has long become a symbol. They were even tattooing themselves and when people send you a tattoo of your obit number and say this makes me feel fearless you have to take it seriously we decided to create a movement with this and a nonprofit called two six one fearless and to use that same vehicle to reach women who are fearful fearless women like us with running what help fearful women because it changes lives. Boston Katherine Switzer can finally stop running. Director of global two six one club network. Is following the race in the media center. Says quote on the stock she got to the start well which is quite a challenge in boston and then she got going in high spirits with our hundred dramas and what was great is that we made a live recording in the exact place where the incident took place back then most of what ive said was. A second. Was right. Which oksana tried by putting on the common good natured thank you i recognize a hard head. And. Suddenly recognize realize this. Was ok with the day it. Was. The finish line on the legendary boylston street in boston more than thirty thousand runners complete the rush. To our. After a good four and a half hour as conference with a complete knife boston mass and thanks. To our. Thanks to our an interview after crossing the finishing line. The American Networks get in with the first questions. And he doesnt actually come out i mean them oh. Yeah. I feel overwhelmingly grateful for the streets of boston they started my journey fifty years ago with a very negative thing and attacked by a race director trying to throw me out of the race and pull off my big numbers jock semple and i the man who tried to throw me out of the race fifty years ago he and i became best of friends that photos become an iconic photo is and it is when it now must galvanize hundreds of womens rights movement. At last a little bit of peace and quiet and some time for her husband roger robinson. You know proud i think. And really not to leave because you never know whats going to happen and that america would also not really surprised because katherine is a person of such deep resolution of a determination but i always thought she would do it the anxiety has been the pressure put on her for just especially this week in boston and for the last several months there are those who see the world as it is and ask why and there are others who see the world as it should be and ask why not i have always thought that perfectly fits Katherine Switzer the Cathy Catherine was i think the most important person in the rise a women to equality. The Boston Marathon will never give out big number two hundred sixty one again its the first time in its one hundred twenty one year history in honor of pioneer ronna capturing switzer. On. Vulnerable is germany to a hacker attack. And his use of. The communication company. Completely vulnerable. To. 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