Newton-Wellesley Hospital

Newton-Wellesley Hospital
Newton-Wellesley is the premier community teaching hospital in Massachusetts and strives to provide high-quality, personalized care to all of our patients. The Hospital provides a full range of orthopaedic, joint, physical medicine and rehabilitation services to handle a wide variety of sports-related injuries. Our specialists are experts in their fields and work to create individualized treatment plans through the use of our advanced diagnostic and imaging technologies. Our physicians and clinicians have experience treating running and other sports injuries and are committed to getting our patients back in the game! To learn more about Newton-Wellesley Hospital, visit www.nwh.org. For information about physicians or services offered at Newton-Wellesley, contact CareFinder at carefinder@partners.org or 866-NWH-DOCS (694-3627).
B.A.A. Moment 5

1972 - Women Official Entrants in Marathon

Although Bobbi Gibb was the first woman to complete the Boston Marathon in 1966, it was not until the 1972 Boston Marathon that women could become official entrants due to a change in AAU rules.