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Nina Kuscsik, women's marathoning pioneer from Long Island, dies at age 86
Nina Kuscsik, who was the first celebrity of women’s marathoning and used her clout to agitate for the first women's Olympic race at that distance in 1984, died June 8 of respiratory failure at her Huntington Station home after a long battle with Alzheimer's disease. She was 86.
Despite the gravity of all that, Nina Kuscsik, 33 at the time, is seen in the photo, smiling — and sitting. Yes, the black-and-white image depicts six women not running, not standing ...
HUNTINGTON, N.Y. -- Nina Kuscsik doesn't remember how she heard an Englishman named Roger Bannister had run a mile in less than four minutes in the spring of 1954, but she vividly recalls what she ...
Fifty-six years ago at the age of 14, Nina Kuscsik became obsessed with climbing up the stairs of the Empire State Building. She had seen a sign on a New York City bus advertising a bet over a ...
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