The Boston Marathon will retire number 261 in Switzer's honor after she runs the race on Monday with supporters from around the world.
Already a silver medalist and US record-holder in the 10,000 meters, he ran the fastest marathon time ever for an American in the Summer Games: 2 hours, 10 minutes, 5 seconds.
Now, 50 years later, Kathrine Switzer will return to the Boston Marathon starting line wearing the same number an official tried to rip off her clothing in the 1967 race. Evans played critical roles in the initial response, investigation and ensuing manhunt for the bombers.
"If I can come back", he said, "everyone can". At the time, AAU sanctioned the race, and its rules prohibited women from racing longer than 1.5 miles.
The pair practiced together and when Switzer sailed past the finish line of a 26-mile run easily and made a decision to tack on an extra five miles for good measure, she proved to her coach she was ready.
Marcel Hug (HOOG) has won the wheelchair race at the Boston Marathon in a world's best time.
Keflezighi, whose emotional victory the year after the finish line bombings was the first for an American man in three decades, says he is running Boston for the last time.
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"We checked the rule book and entry form; there was nothing about gender in the marathon", she wrote. The Boston Athletic Association is expecting over one-million spectators and roughly 9,500 volunteers to help make the event run smoothly. "You've reached it", said Lunenburg resident Kim Ortiz.
"Kathrine was not the first woman to win Boston", said the victor of that first Olympic marathon, Joan Benoit Samuelson of Freeport, "but because of the strength of those photos, Kathrine has had the opportunity to do a lot for women in sport and women in distance running".
Briggs then entered himself and Switzer - who registered as K.V. Switzer - in the 1967 Boston Marathon. "I think it's wonderful that she's going back to celebrate her 50th anniversary".
This morning, more than 30,000 souls will cram into the relatively small space of downtown Hopkinton, anticipating a 26-mile, 385-yard journey to the John Hancock Tower in Boston.
"What I didn't realize was that the training would be the worst part", she said.
"Instinctively I jerked my head around quickly and looked square into the most vicious face I'd ever seen", she wrote in her memoir, Marathon Woman, according to CNN.
The 121st running of the Boston Marathon is officially underway with the mobility impaired athletes.
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