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

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

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

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

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

Overcoming male resistance, she became the first woman to enter the New York City Marathon and the first official female winner of the Boston event. By Jeré Longman Nina Kuscsik, the first woman ...

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

Nina Kuscsik, winner of the first official women’s race at the Boston Marathon, twice winner at New York, and an important early advocate for women’s running, died on June 8 at Huntington ...