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Kathrine Switzer claims NZ running first

More than 50 years after becoming the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon, then creating the world’s first women’s road race, Kathrine Switzer continues to make history – and for the first time, in New Zealand.At 78, she’s just won her first New Zealand running title on one of the country’s most legendary tracks, where Sir Peter Snell broke the world record for the mile in 1962.Switzer, an athlete who’s always preferred the road ov…