Tuhia he tohutoro mō tēnei wāhanga - I te tīmatanga noa iho o te whakaaetanga o ngā wāhine hei kaitākaro. Ko te oma i runga i te rori me te marathon i noho hei wāhi e taea ai e rātau te eke. Ko nga pionie wahine i te United States tae atu ki a Kathrine Switzer, Jacqueline Hansen me Miki Gorman i arahi i etahi atu wahine ki te whakapono ka taea e raatau te rere. Ko Mary Decker, ko Francie Larrieu, ko Grete Waitz o Norway, he wāhanga katoa o tētahi āhuatanga i tutuki i a Joan Benoit's 1984 Olympic Marathon
te wikitoria, nāna anō i whakatenatena ētahi atu wāhine kia rere.