Marcel Hug wins Boston Marathon wheelchair title for 9th time

BOSTON — Marcel Hug of Switzerland received his ninth Boston Marathon males’s wheelchair title Monday, using a tailwind to complete in an unofficial time of 1 hour, 16 minutes, 6 seconds. He missed breaking his personal course report by 33 seconds.

Hug’s fourth consecutive win in Boston places him into second place all time in Boston males’s wheelchair historical past, behind solely South African nice Ernst van Dyk’s report 10 titles between 2001 and 2014.

American racer Daniel Romanchuk was second in 1:22:44, adopted by Jetze Plat of the Netherlands in 1:24:13.

Eden Rainbow-Cooper of Britain received the ladies’s wheelchair race.

Hug jumped in entrance of the sphere shortly, constructing a 13-second benefit over David Weir of Britain 3 miles into the race. That lead grew to 55 seconds by the midway level.

Since profitable the Berlin Marathon in 2022, Hug has misplaced solely one of many seven world main titles, ending second on the New York Marathon in 2024.

The race got here on a transparent morning with beginning temperatures within the low 40s.

The quickest subject in occasion historical past and ultimate climate had runners anticipating quick instances within the a hundred and thirtieth version of the world’s oldest and most prestigious annual marathon.

The athletes arrived in Hopkinton with frost on the bottom and temperatures within the 30s. It had been warmed to 45 levels (7 levels Celsius) by the time defending champions Sharon Lokedi and John Korir began the race, adopted by greater than 30,000 others.

It was the coldest beginning temperature since 2018, when it was 38 levels and raining. Last 12 months, the thermostat was at 58 when runners set off.