Nina Kuscsik, the first women's division champion in the Boston Marathon, has died at age 86. An obituary for Kuscsik said ...

A pioneer in women’s running, Kuscsik first ran Boston in 1969, before women could even officially enter the race ...

An obituary said Nina Kuscsik died June 8 of respiratory failure after a long battle with Alzheimer’s disease.

Nina Kuscsik, who campaigned for women's inclusion in long-distance running and then won the Boston Marathon the first year ...

By Jeré Longman Nina Kuscsik, the first woman to enter the New York City Marathon and the first official female winner of the Boston Marathon, who in the 1970s repudiated the widely-held and ...

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