Kathrine Switzer, the trailblazing first woman to run the Boston Marathon with an official race number, famously said, “If you are losing faith in human nature, go out and watch a marathon.” ...

That had begun to change in the late 1960s, when the future Nike co-founder Bill Bowerman and cardiologist Dr. Waldo Harris ...

Joan Benoit Samuelson's victory in the marathon at the Los Angeles Games helped change the perception of women as athletes and competitors.

Just before the start of the 544-mile Sydney to Melbourne Ultramarathon in 1983, one particular runner caught the attention ...

“They might have taken the Olympic marathon off the schedule ... “that was the game-changer,” Switzer, the first woman to run Boston as an official competitor, told Mertens.

The reigning women’s and men’s Boston Marathon champions, Hellen Obiri and Sisay Lemma, will return to the Hopkinton start ...

Both of the Boston Marathon's defending wheelchair champions will return in April to race the 26.2 miles from Hopkinton to ...

The Boston Athletic Association announced the professional wheelchair division athletes for the 2025 Boston Marathon.

The reigning women’s and men’s Boston Marathon champions will return to ... So will CJ Albertson, who finished seventh last year and first among US men. Also in the Boston field will be ...