Boston Marathon

Bobbi Gibb to serve as grand marshal at Boston Marathon

Bobbi Gibb to serve as grand marshal at Boston Marathon

The first woman to complete the Boston Marathon will serve as the grand marshal of this year’s race, the Boston Athletic Association announced Tuesday.

Bobbi Gibb: Contemporary Artist, Renaissance Woman

Bobbi Gibb: Contemporary Artist, Renaissance Woman

Her passion may be running yet contemporary artist and sculptor Bobbi Gibb has never run from anything in her life. In fact, her existence is a series of running toward, well, everything, as fast as humanly possible. She began running at age four “and never stopped.”

22 Inspiring Profiles of the Rebels, Rule Breakers, and Visionaries Who Changed the Sport Forever

22 Inspiring Profiles of the Rebels, Rule Breakers, and Visionaries Who Changed the Sport Forever

With little left to prove on the roads after 1968, Gibb turned her attention to academics and art. She has had a lifelong and continuing interest in neuroscience, especially Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS), which claimed a close friend a decade ago. She also sculpts and paints. In 1984, her sculpture was awarded to the first three finishers in the first U.S. Olympic Marathon Trials for women, famously won by Joan Benoit.

Some of her paintings—colorful swirling abstracts—will be made public for the first time this spring.

National Women's History Museum Acknowledges Bobbi

The National Women's History Museum graciously acknowledged Bobbi for her contribution to women's sports in their Facebook post of December 13, 2015. Based on the number of "likes" and "shares," Bobbi's courage is as relevant today as it was 50 years ago.  If you are on Facebook, search their page for Bobbi Gibb and you can join the over 99,000 people that have "liked" this post! 

Cart (0)