NYC Marathon 2023: Catherine Debrunner of Switzerland sets course record by winning the women’s wheelchair race.
Catherine Debrunner of Switzerland easily won her first New York City Marathon wheelchair race in a time of 1:39:32, a course record.
Debrunner led from the start of the race in Staten Island and built a commanding one-minute lead by the 10-mile mark. By the midway point, her lead had ballooned to more than three minutes over Susannah Scaroni of the United States, who set the course record last year with a 1:42:43 finish.
Debrunner also won the Berlin and Chicago marathons this year, which are both on flat courses, compared to New York’s hilly course.
Manuela Schar of Switzerland finished second.
The victory came with a $50,000 bonus for Debrunner for her record-breaking performance.
While Scaroni finished third in Sunday’s race, she qualified for the U.S. Paralympic team for the 2024 Paralympic Games in Paris next summer. For the first time, the New York City Marathon doubled as the qualifying race for the top two American finishers.
Tatyana McFadden, a five-time winner of the race, finished sixth and also qualified for the U.S. Paralympic team.
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