Daniel Romanchuk and Susannah Scaroni lead USA sweep at 2024 NYC Marathon
U.S. athletes return to the top of the podium to become the first pair from the host nation to win the New York City Marathon wheelchair division. It was Romanchuk's third title in the men's race and Scaroni's second in the women's event 04 Nov 2024History was rewritten at the 2024 TCS New York City Marathon on Sunday (3 November) as Daniel Romanchuk and Susannah Scaroni led an USA sweep of the wheelchair division, a marathon first.
Romanchuk and Scaroni returned to the top of the podium to become the first pair of U.S. athletes to win the NYC Marathon wheelchair division. Romanchuk, the champion from 2018 and 2019, broke the tape first in 1:36:31, followed by Great Britain’s David Weir in 1:36:36 and Japan’s Tomoki Suzuki in 1:36:44.
“[It] certainly [was a] very, very tight race all the way…It came down to just [giving] it everything I had and [hoping] that [was] enough,” Romanchuk said.
In the women’s wheelchair race, Scaroni won her second New York City Marathon title in 1:48:05. She won by more than 10 minutes, one of the largest margins of victory in event history.
🇺🇸Daniel Romanchuk and Susannah Scaroni lead USA sweep at @nycmarathon 🗽
— Para Athletics (@ParaAthletics) November 4, 2024
Romanchuk, the champion from 2018 and 2019, broke the tape first in 1:36:31. In the women’s wheelchair race, Scaroni won her second New York City Marathon title in 1:48:05@TeamUSA @usatf @Paralympics
“I had a wonderful day. I felt great. It's always a blessing. This course will challenge you every step of the way, and so I just tried to meet each of those challenges and hope that the gap that I had could extend or at least maintain, and [I’m] really thankful,” Scaroni said.
Her compatriot Tatyana McFadden, a five-time TCS New York City Marathon champion, was second in 1:58:47, followed by Manuela Schaer of Switzerland in 1:59:20.
In the open division races, Abdi Nageeye became the first athlete from the Netherlands to capture a men’s open title while Sheila Chepkirui led a Kenyan sweep of the women’s open podium while claiming her first-ever Abbott World Marathon Majors title
The 2024 TCS New York City Marathon welcomed more than 50,000+ runners from nearly 150 countries and all 50 U.S. states. As one of the city’s most anticipated and iconic annual sporting events, the TCS New York City Marathon is one of the most inclusive and accessible sporting events in the world, with the first finisher and the final finisher, running the same course on the same day.