Olympic champions in Paris, Marcel Hug and Catherine Debrunner won the wheelchair marathon in Chicago, in the United States. They had already won in Berlin at the end of September.
Hug, 38 years old and star of his discipline, won the event for the fifth time, in 1h25’54. He beat the American Daniel Romanchuk and the Japanese Tomoki Suzuki in the final.
Among the women, Debrunner broke away from the first kilometers. The 29-year-old Thurgau raced alone in the lead to finish in 1h36’09.
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Published at 4:42 p.m. Amended at 5:46 p.m.
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