The New York Times - Roberta Gibb broke barriers in the Boston Marathon. Now there’s a statue of her feat.

Oct. 11, 2021

By Alexandra E. Petri

“In 1966, Roberta Gibb became the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon at a time when women were prohibited from doing so because they were considered “physiologically incapable.”

Now, more than 55 years later, Gibb has broken another gender barrier by becoming the race’s first woman to be featured as a sculpture and placed along the Boston Marathon route.

Last week, “The Girl Who Ran” was unveiled by the 26.2 Foundation, a nonprofit that promotes marathoning, and installed in downtown Hopkinton, Mass., where the race begins.” Continue Reading

Roberta “Bobbi” Gibb becomes the first woman to complete the Boston marathon in 1966. Photo Credit: Fred Kaplan/Sports Illustrated, via Getty Images

MetroWest Daily News - 'It's alive:' Statue unveiled of Bobbi Gibb, first woman to run Boston Marathon

Oct 7, 2021

by Tim Dumas

“HOPKINTON — After all the champions spoke before her, Mary Jo LaFreniere came up with the winning words. 

“Welcome to Hopkinton!” the Select Board member exclaimed. 

A greeting that was not forthcoming more than half a century ago. 

Roberta "Bobbi" Gibb did not need to hide in the bushes on this night. The spotlight kept her in plain sight. 

Gibb is not only the first woman to run the Boston Marathon, she is the race’s first female to have a sculpture created in her honor, adding to the town’s iconic figures captured in bronze.

The statue, unveiled Tuesday night in a ceremony attended by a crowd of about 100 people at the Hopkinton Center for the Arts, was created by its inspiration: Gibb.” Continue Reading.

Bobbi Gibb Discusses Changing Social Consciousness through Running

The Chink In The Armor

Fifty-one years ago, a 23-year-old named Roberta (Bobbi) Gibb became the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon. She was later recognized as the women’s winner that year [1966] and in 1967 and 1968, making her the first Boston Marathon female winner in history. In the decades since, Gibb has spent her time expanding her knowledge about the world in every way she could: she earned a degree in philosophy at UC San Diego, studied at Tufts and at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, has written two books, became and artist and established herself as an advocate for social change and awareness.

When Gibb spoke with Women’s Running last month, she was at an art colony in Massachusetts, where she’s spent time working on a life-size sculpture of a female runner–the first of its kind that was contracted by the 26.2 Foundation to be displayed along the Boston Marathon route.   

Events featured Marathoner Bobbi Gibb's Artwork Contributions

It only seems fitting that someone who has as many varied interests as Bobbi Gibb does would be front and center at a handful of different events across Cape Ann over the next two weeks. The Renaissance woman's current focus is the Bobbi Gibb Marathon Sculpture Project, created with the goal of erecting a sculpture of Gibb, a Rockport resident, on the Boston Marathon course.

By Jason Brisbois / capeann@wickedlocal.com

It only seems fitting that someone who has as many varied interests as Bobbi Gibb does would be front and center at a handful of different events across Cape Ann over the next two weeks.

Gibb -- who gained fame as the first woman to run in the Boston Marathon during a time when women weren’t allowed to participate in the sport -- is also an accomplished artist and author, has a law degree and does research on ALS as a neuroscience affiliate at MIT and the University of Massachusetts Medical Center.   Read more here!

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