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

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

Boston Marathon Nina Kuscsik, marathon pioneer and first (official) winner of Boston Marathon’s women’s race, has died An obituary for the A.L. Jacobsen Funeral Home in Huntington Station, New ...

BOSTON — 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, has died.

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

A pioneer in women's athletics and long-distance running, Nina Kuscsik, has died at the age of 86 from complications of Alzheimer’s disease and a short struggle with respiratory failure on June ...