Zozo Christodoulou, the First Greek Woman to Run the Marathon

Zozo Christodoulou runs the Marathon becoming the first Greek woman to do so in history. Credit: Screenshot from Youtube.com/Η ΚΑΘΗΜΕΡΙΝΗ On October 19, 1974, Zozo Christodoulou did something that no other Greek woman had done before. She ran in the original Marathon race, making history for Greek women. At the time, the race was called the “Open Marathon” or “The People’s Marathon.” There had been female runners in the race before, of course, but they had all been foreigners. Greece was far behind the western world at the time regarding female empowerment. Christodoulou said in a later...