Romanchuk wins men’s wheelchair race at NYC Marathon, Scaroni wins women’s event

NEW YORK (AP) — Marcel Hug’s three-year streak as New York Marathon males’s wheelchair champion is over after Daniel Romanchuk received the race on Sunday.

The Swiss star, nicknamed the Silver Bullet, had received 16 straight marathons, together with a gold medal at this 12 months’s Paris Paralympics. He additionally received the Chicago Marathon a couple of weeks in the past.

Susannah Scaroni received the ladies’s wheelchair race by blowing previous the sphere. It was her second time profitable, additionally taking the 2022 race.

It’s the primary time within the historical past of the race that each the lads’s and girls’s wheelchair occasions had been received by People.

Hug grew to become the primary para-racer to win the Abbott World Marathon Majors collection title by coming first in all six marathons final 12 months — Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York.

The 38-year-old Hug was within the lead pack Sunday heading into Manhattan earlier than falling off the tempo. Romanchuk mentioned a pothole on First Ave. brought about some points for among the opponents.

It then grew to become a three-man race between Romanchuk, David Weir and Tomoki Suzuki. The trio got here into the final mile inside a second of one another earlier than Romanchuk, who additionally received this race in 2018 and 2019, pulled away to win in 1 hour, 36 minutes, 31 seconds.

“I do know a lot of the different racers fairly effectively, actually simply attempt to fully empty the tank for the ultimate mile,” Romanchuk mentioned. “It’s wonderful.”

Weir, who was runner up in 2021 in addition to profitable the title in 2010, completed 5 seconds behind. Suzuki was third at 1:36.43.

Hug completed fourth, 3:38 behind the winner.

Scaroni beat one other American, Tatyana McFadden, profitable the race by greater than 10 minutes in 1:48.05.

“All the time so particular to be right here in New York Metropolis,” Scaroni mentioned. “I wakened feeling nice at the moment, by no means take it without any consideration. Arising the final hill we had a tailwind at the moment. So I had just a little extra power then I usually do at that hill.”

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