Starting Line 1928

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Starting Line 1928 is an oral history project documenting the lived experiences of female distance running pioneers

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Junko Kazukawa

Junko Kazukawa is a Japanese-born women's ultra running pioneer best known for having finished the Leadville 100-mile race 10 times. Junko is a two-time breast cancer survivor with more than three decades of experience in health, fitness, and training. She currently works as an ultra endurance coach with Boundless. Junko lives and trains in Denver, Colorado, and has completed 24 100-mile trail races so far, including Leadville, UTMB, Mt. Fuji, Ultra Fiord in Patagonia. She's the first female to finish the Grand Slam of ultra running in 2015. She was Lead Woman three times, in 2014, 2015 and 2024. This means she completed all six events in the Leadville Race Series in the span of two months in the nation’s highest city, including a trail marathon, a mountain-bike race, the Leadville Trail 100 Run, and more. She was the 2015 Sports Woman of Colorado and voted as the Colorado resident badass in 2017.

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Doris Brown Heritage

Doris Brown Heritage has always had a need to run. During a career that spanned roughly twenty years, Brown Heritage held every woman’s national and world record from the 440 yards to the marathon. In 1966 she became the first woman to run an indoor sub-five-minute mile in 4:52. Ten years later, on a lark with little training, she won her first marathon, the 1976 Vancouver International Marathon in 2:47:35 at the age of 34. She is a two-time Olympian (1968, 800m, 1972 1500m) and is a living legend in her home state where she was named Seattle’s 1971 Man of the Year in Sports. She found that hilarious. Her most acclaimed accomplishment was winning five consecutive International World Cross-Country Championships from 1967 through 1971. “She is a remarkable woman who should have the name recognition of Jim Ryan,” claims Charlotte Lettis Richardson who included Brown Heritage in her documentary Run Like a Girl.

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Laurel James

“Life is a challenge. And if you can’t enjoy that, you’re in trouble.” Laurel James, founder of the Seattle-based running retailer Super Jock ‘n Jill and mastermind behind the 1984 U.S. Women’s Olympic Marathon Trials race, does not mince words. James entered the nascent running-retail scene in 1975, and quickly cemented herself as a visionary female entrepreneur, race director, and community pillar in the running world and beyond.

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Sue Parks

Sue Parks has had a storied career as an athlete and coach who continues to break barriers in the NCAA. Today, Sue is the director of cross-country and track and field at her alma mater, Eastern Michigan University. She’s one of the few women leading a track and field program at the Division 1 level. Years before she became a director, Parks was blazing her own path as one of the first women track stars in her home state. Her most memorable race was against Olympic gold medalist Madeline Manning (now Mims) in the Los Angeles Coliseum, where Parks ran her personal best in the 800 meters at the age of 16. She also competed on the U.S. team in the Pan American Games.

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21/12/2023

Patti Catalano Dillonlano Dillon

In 1980, Patti Catalano (now Patti Catalano Dillon) became the first American woman to break 2:30 in the marathon. She has held American and world records at various distances—including the 5 mile, 10 mile, 10k, 15k, 20k, 30k and half marathon, and she has been inducted into the RRCA Distance Running Hall of Fame. She won the Honolulu Marathon four times and finished second at the Boston Marathon three times, in 1979, 1980 and 1981.

1 giờ 46 phút
30/11/2023

40 | Janet Romayko

Janet Romayko is a veteran of 49 marathons and countless triathlons including the half Ironman distance. But what she is most thrilled with is her 50 consecutive finishes at the Manchester Road Race in Manchester CT, a 4.748-mile race held on Thanksgiving Day started in 1927. She loves running Manchester. “It’s very special to me. My family grew up there, are buried there. It’s a very sweet feeling I have for the town and the community. It’s truly coming home for me. It’s a wonderful experience,” states Romayko, who now lives in Hartford and still works as a clinical social worker.

1 giờ 18 phút
16/11/2023

39 | Cheryl Toussaint

Cheryl Toussaint is the meet director of the Colgate Women’s Games and an Olympic silver medalist She grew up in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, and began running with the Atoms Track Club at age 13. There, Coach Fred Thompson nurtured her athletic talent—and encouraged her academically. Cheryl earned an academic scholarship to New York University and kept training with the Atoms, eventually making the Olympics in 1972; she competed in Munich in the 800 meters and 4x400 relay, where she helped the team make the final—and eventually, win silver—despite losing a shoe. She also began assisting Thompson with his other venture, the Colgate Women’s Games, and took over as meet director when he retired in 2014. It’s the longest running track and field series for girls and young women in the United States, open to all young women from elementary school through college and beyond, and has launched the careers of many other Olympians and successful women in other fields.

1 giờ 35 phút
26/10/2023

Francie Larrieu Smith

Francie Larrieu Smith was the youngest woman 1500-meter runner and the oldest woman in any track and field event the U.S. ever sent to the Olympics. Her running career spans five Olympics and multiple distances. Her best Olympic finish was fifth place in the 10,000-meter event at the 1988 Seoul Olympics, the first running of the event. She was the flag bearer for the U. S. Olympic Team at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. During her 30-year athletic career, she established 36 United States records and 12 world bests in distances ranging from 1000 meters to 10,000 meters.

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23/09/2021

Starting Line 1928: Trailer

The first modern Olympics were held in 1896. Women runners, though? They weren’t called to the starting line until 1928. After made-up reports of women collapsing after the 800 meters, track and field’s governing body eliminated the event after just one try—a change that lasted until 1960. It wasn’t the first, and certainly not the last time the story of women’s running was twisted, and athletes’ voices lost. Running fans will know some of the stories of women pioneers in the sport: Bobbi Gibb, Joan Benoit, Kathrine Switzer, Wilma Rudolph, and the like. But there are so many more women we don’t hear about at all—and certainly not straight from their own mouths. Until now. Welcome to Starting Line 1928, an oral history project dedicated to documenting the stories of women’s running pioneers, in their own voices. In this feed, you’ll hear interviews with women who have made significant contributions to running before the mid-1990s, or who stand out in other ways—such as being the first to compete in the steeplechase. You’ll see a special emphasis on Black women and other runners of color, whose stories have frequently been overlooked. You’ll learn about their victories, and their struggles, large and small—against forces as huge as sexism and racism and as mundane as a lack of women’s running shoes and sports bras. Our interviewers are freelance historians, called together as a collective to continue work begun in 2013 by Amy Yoder Begley and Gary Corbitt. Our goal is to preserve the voices of these women while they’re still here to share them—and to raise awareness of their contributions among the next generation of athletes.

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I love getting to know the groundbreaking women runners featured on this show!

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Cherie.Louise

I have loved this show since it was released. The interviewers choose exceptional women runners, both past and present, who are changing the sport. The interviews are thorough and interesting, and they shed light on how these women are helping the sport move forward for us all. There are so many terrific and untold or undertold stories of groundbreaking women runners, and this show is helping to close that gap.

Starting Line 1928 is an oral history project documenting the lived experiences of female distance running pioneers

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Running Historians (Various)
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Starting Line 1928

Starting Line 1928

Junko Kazukawa

Doris Brown Heritage

Laurel James

Sue Parks

Patti Catalano Dillonlano Dillon

40 | Janet Romayko

39 | Cheryl Toussaint

Francie Larrieu Smith

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Starting Line 1928: Trailer

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Starting Line 1928

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Junko Kazukawa

Doris Brown Heritage

Laurel James

Sue Parks

Patti Catalano Dillonlano Dillon

40 | Janet Romayko

39 | Cheryl Toussaint

Francie Larrieu Smith

Trailer

Starting Line 1928: Trailer

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I love getting to know the groundbreaking women runners featured on this show!

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