Turn left on Boylston” rings through your ears as you approach the finish line of the Boston Marathon. The race has long been ...

Kuscsik won the women's division of the Boston Marathon in 1972, the first official year women were allowed to enter the Boston Marathon.

UTPB lecturer Terra James poses for a photo at the Boston Marathon, which she recently ran to raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. (Courtesy Photo) Through running the 128th ...

Nina Kuscsik campaigned for women’s inclusion in long-distance running and then won the Boston Marathon the first year they were officially allowed to enter the race.

On June 8, beloved Boston Marathon icon Nina Kuscsik passed away at age 86.

Nina Kuscsik, a pioneer for women's distance running who became the first female to win the Boston Marathon in 1972, has died. She was 86.

She ran the Boston Marathon four times from 1968-71 — before women were officially welcomed, a period retroactively recognized as the Pioneer Era — and then won the first official women's race in 1972 ...

BOSTON (AP) — Nina Kuscsik, who campaigned for women's inclusion in long-distance running and then won the Boston Marathon the first year that they were officially allowed to enter into the race ...

Nina Kuscsik has died at the age of 86. Kuscsik campaigned for women’s inclusion in long-distance running and won the Boston Marathon the first year that they were officially allowed ...