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ATHS: Prejudice clouds women's marathon history


AAP Sports News (Australia)
10-03-2001
ATHS: Prejudice clouds women's marathon history

By John Mehaffey

LONDON, Oct 3 Reuters - Confusion and prejudice cloud the history of the women's marathon,
primarily because women were long thought too fragile to run 42.195 kms over the roads.

The anti-feminists, who opposed any women's race over 200 metres for most of the 20th
century, would have been confounded by Sunday's Berlin marathon.

Naoko Takahashi, a slight, young Japanese, reduced the world best by 57 seconds to
clock two hours 19 minutes 46 seconds. Her time would been fast enough to win the men's
Olympic title as recently as 1956.

Several reports have claimed a Greek woman named ...

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