The London Marathon 2024 elite women’s wheelchair race didn’t provide viewers with a nail-biting finish this year, as Swiss athlete Catherine Debrunner dominated the course. The 29-year-old finished around five minutes before second-place racer Manuela Schär. Last year’s winner Madison de Rozario came in fourth place.
Debrunner didn’t take part in Monday’s Boston Marathon which seemed to do her a favour. British back-to-back racer Eden Rainbow-Cooper, who made history winning Boston earlier this week, didn’t quite manage to make the podium.
Debrunner and the other wheelchair racers will be looking ahead to this year’s Paralympic Games in Paris, where we’ll see plenty more action from this elite field.
It was a double win for Switzerland this year as, in the men’s race, Marcel Hug won his fifth London Marathon, and his third in a row. After sticking close to Britain’s David Weir and US racer Daniel Romanchuk throughout the race, Hug broke off in the final stretches to win by some distance with a time of 1:28:33.
