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Mighty Moe Rachel Swaby

Mighty Moe By Rachel Swaby

Mighty Moe by Rachel Swaby


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The untold true story of runner Maureen Wilton, whose world record-breaking marathon time at age thirteen was met first with misogyny and controversy, but ultimately with triumph.

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Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary by Rachel Swaby

In 1967, a thirteen-year-old girl named Maureen Wilton set the women's world marathon record, running 26.2 miles in 3:15:23. Nicknamed Little Mo by her track teammates, Wilton was already a headline-making athlete. But her accomplishment was greeted with controversy and misogynistic accusations of cheating. Wilton receded into the background, left the sport, and kept her achievement secret. This is the story of what happened, and how Maureen found her way back to the sport decades later as the mother of a young runner herself. Introduction by Katherine Switzer, first official female participant of the Boston Marathon in 1967.

About Rachel Swaby

Rachel Swaby and Kit Fox produced the Runner's World podcast Human Race, where Little Mo's story was first told. Rachel is the author of Headstrong: 52 Women Who Changed Science-and the World (a Random House adult title) as well as its middle-grade version, Trailblazers: 33 Women in Science Who Changed the World, and Kit is a magazine editor.

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CIN0374311609VG
9780374311605
0374311609
Mighty Moe: The True Story of a Thirteen-Year-Old Women's Running Revolutionary by Rachel Swaby
Used - Very Good
Hardback
Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
20191101
320
N/A
Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.
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