Swiss para-athletes Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner once again showed their class at the marathon in Chicago, repeating their victories from last year.
Hug, who triumphed for the third time in a row in the Paralympic marathon in September and for the ninth time in the marathon in Berlin, came out on top in the sprint ahead of the tenacious American Daniel Romanchuk.
It was the 38-year-old from Thurgau's fifth victory in the prestigious race in the US state of Illinois after 2016, 2017, 2022 and 2023. Hug missed his own course record from the previous year by a good three minutes in the tactical race with a time of 1:25:54 hours.
As at the Paralympics in Paris and the marathon in Berlin, Debrunner was in a league of her own. The 29-year-old beat her compatriot Manuela Schär into second place by almost three minutes and set a course record of 1:36:12 in her eighth victory in her ninth marathon at major level.
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