Also running on Monday was Ben Beach, who completed the race for an unprecedented 50th time in a row.
Fifty years after she made history in 1967 as the first woman to officially enter the Boston Marathon, Kathrine Switzer crossed the finish line again wearing the same bib number.
"The marathon was a man's race in those days; women were considered too fragile to run it", Switzer wrote in a New York Times published memoir.
At the point where she was once confronted by that race official, she posted a Facebook Live video - smiling as she ran, with her bib number, 261, pinned safely in place. This was Rose's 16th marathon and the fourth time she has completed the Boston Marathon specifically.
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first woman to officially run the Boston Marathon by using her initials, K.V. Switzer, to secure a bib.
In the women's competition, runners to watch include Kenya's Gladys Cherono, who won the 2015 Berlin Marathon, and Edna Kiplagat, who finished second in Chicago previous year.
After the race this year, Switzer's number was retired in her honor.
Switzer, who founded "261 Fearless Inc.", a global non-profit organization for women runners, will return to Syracuse next week to speak at WISE (Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship) Symposium.
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"I chose to push further even after they failed to react when I broke away", she added.
"I tried many times in the track but I see my future in marathon", he said. He makes it to the finish line by thinking about his father, members of law enforcement who were killed in the line of duty, and the kids with cancer who are fighting for their lives.
That's when Jack Semple, a race official, jumped off the press bus and ran after her.
Having fought sexism when she ran Boston the first time, she said she already knows the next boundary she has to break through: ageism. Fellow Swiss Manuela Schar shattered the women's mark by more than five minutes, winning in 1:28:17.
Edna Kiplagat, the victor of the 2017 Boston Marathon, is seen here second from left at the race's six-mile mark.
"I boxed it up for three or four years because I didn't want to acknowledge it", Sanchez told Runner's World. He chose to take the flag for a run Monday "for others to be inspired, to be motivated".
"I can't thank the streets of Boston, I can't thank the (Boston Athletic Association) enough", Switzer told WBZ-TV. "He said, 'Give me those numbers, give me those numbers!' He went after the one on my back and as he went for that, my burly boyfriend who was running alongside - 235 pound, ex-All American football player - took out the official just like that and sent him flying".
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