Fauja Singh was a torchbearer at the 2012 London Olympics and set eight age-group world records in one day. He was honored by ...

Nina Kuscsik, who helped break open the boys’ club of long-distance running, challenging sexist attitudes and scientific misconceptions while becoming the first woman to run in the New York City ...

As the dedicated runner that she was, Kuscsik was a well-accomplished athlete who also participated in races outside of the Boston Marathon. According to Roger Robinson of Runner's World, in 1970 ...

In 1972, eight women gathered in Boston, Massachusetts, to compete in the first official Women's Division of the Boston Marathon. Among the eight was trailblazer Nina Kuscsik, who played a vital ...

Nina Kuscsik, the winner of the first Boston Marathon in which women were officially allowed to compete, died on June 8 at the age of 86. Kuscsik was one of the women who ran the race unofficially ...

Back in the 1970s, the prevailing thought was that it wasn't safe for women to run. A leader in the fight for a woman's right to run has died. Nina Kuscsik was 86.

Nina Kuscsik was 86 and the first official women's champion of the Boston Marathon. VALERIE ROGOSHESKE: She is wonderful. Just, with a capital T, trailblazer. KELLY: That is Valerie Rogosheske, who ...