DISCRIMINATION AGAINST WOMAN

KATHRINE SWITZER

She competed in athletics. Switzer won the 1974 New York Marathon and finished second in the 1975 Boston Marathon, where he achieved his best mark with a time of 2 hours, 51 minutes and 37 seconds.

BOSTON MARATHON 1967

She was the first woman to run a race with dorsal, event that was intended exclusively for male athletes, when in 1967 Boston marathon managed to start from the finish line with number 261 and get to cross the final line after 4 hours and 20 minutes.

In the course of the race, one of the commisioners, called Jock Semple, who was co-director of the race, detecting Kathrine Switzer was a women, he tried to stop her, he left behind her and shouted: "Get out of here and give me back the dorsal". But the collaboration of her boyfriend and some runners, who escorted her to the finish, prevented the athlete from being withdrawn from the competition