Kuscsik, who died June 8 at the age of 86, was part of a core group of women in the late-1960s and early ’70s, who successfully fought to open competitive long-distance running to women.

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 ...

Nina Kuscsik has died at the age of 86. She was also the first woman to enter the New York race, in 1970, and was one of the “Six who Sat” – six women who refused to start the '72 New York ...

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. She ...

Nina Kuscsik, second from right, sits through the early women’s start at the 1972 New York City Marathon with other protesters, from left, Lynn Blackstone, Jane Muhrcke, Liz Franceschini, Pat ...

Before her first marathon, Nina Kuscsik’s longest training run was a 20-miler. It was cut short when the police picked her up on the Northern State Parkway. They were responding to a report of a ...

Nina Kuscsik of Huntington, N.Y., stands atop the Empire State Building in midtown New York City Thursday, Feb. 15, 1979, after becoming the first woman to complete the second Empire State Run-up.

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 ...

BOSTON (AP) — 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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...