15 Jan 2023

Lauren Fleshman: Running in man's world

From The Weekend , 10:05 am on 15 January 2023

In New Zealand high schools, a gap emerges in the numbers of boys and girls taking part in sport - by the age of 17, 28 percent more boys participate in sport.

Lauren Fleshman is a champion distance runner in the US, and now the author of Good for a Girl: A Woman Running in a Man's World. She speaks to Max about her experiences in an uneven field, and the different expectations she's run up against.

Lauren Fleshman and book cover for "Good for a Girl"

Photo: Little, Brown Book Group / Ryan Warner