Ms. Kuscsik, who competed in more than 80 marathons over four decades, was in the forefront of the push to end the ...

In the 1970s, she made history while running in Boston and New York. She later fought to get a women’s marathon into the ...

Overcoming male resistance as a voice for equality, she was the first woman to enter the New York City Marathon and the first ...

Nina Kuscsik, who was the first celebrity of women’s marathoning and used her clout to agitate for the first women's Olympic ...

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

Nina Kuscsik has died at the age of 86. Kuscsik campaigned for women’s inclusion in long-distance running and won the Boston ...

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