BarefootMarathon – Brio Stories

Kathrine Switzer – born January 5, 1947 in Amberg, Germany. In 1967, she registered for the Boston Marathon as “K.V.…

Emil Zátopek — the “Human Locomotive” of Czechoslovakia — pulled off the greatest triple in Olympic track history at the…

Abebe Bikila — born August 7, 1932 in Jato, Ethiopia. At the 1960 Rome Olympics, he ran the marathon barefoot…