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Arlene Pieper Stine (1930–2021), first woman to finish a marathon
Arlene Pieper Stine became the first woman to officially finish a sanctioned marathon in 1959, when she ran the Pikes Peak Marathon.When Stine made history, she was running Arlene’s Health Studio, a women’s fitness center in Colorado Springs along with her husband. She decided to run the grueling Pikes Peak Marathon to promote the studio.
