The Swiss para-athlete wins her eighth wheelchair race, and sixth in the track and field, in the British capital to match Weir’s feat.
In the men’s wheelchair race at the TCS London Marathon on Sunday (April 26), Marcel Hoog was a class apart.
The Swiss “silver bullet” cruised home in style in 84:12 with China’s Luo Xingchuan finishing runner-up in 88:45 and Britain’s David Weir third in 89:21.
It makes it a record eight London Marathon wins for Hug and puts him alongside Weir as the most successful para-athlete in the event’s history.
He has now won 40 of the world’s major marathon races. The Swiss runner has also won the last three Paralympic marathons and holds the world record of 1:17:47, set in Oita, Japan in 2021.
In London, Hoog holds the record of 83:44 from 2023 and has now won six consecutive races dating back to 2021. He also won in 2014 and 2016, bringing his current tally to eight.
It was his 27th London Marathon for Weir, after spending a week traveling to Switzerland and back to fix a dorsal fin that broke his racing chair at the Boston Marathon earlier in the week.
The women’s race was much closer as Switzerland’s Kathryn Debrunner pulled away from American Tatiana McFadden in the final lap to win 98:29 as Switzerland’s Manuela Schar was third.
Eden Rainbow-Cooper won the Boston Marathon six days earlier but didn’t have the best of luck in London when a puncture forced him to miss the start.
