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Marcel Hug wins the 2025 Boston Marathon men’s wheelchair division
Hug has now won Boston eight times in his career.
Switzerland’s Marcel Hug has done it again, propelling his way to another Boston Marathon win in the men’s wheelchair division.
Hug, 39, clinched his third consecutive Boston Marathon win, and his eighth overall, with a time of 1:21:34. As was the case in previous years, he was alone by the finish, having built up an unassailable lead.
United States athlete Daniel Romanchuk finished second. The 26-year-old was able to keep pace with Hug for much of the early part of the race — trying to hold Hug’s wheel by drafting behind him — but couldn’t hold the tempo beyond the halfway point as the Swiss champion made his move.
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Once he was ahead of the rest of the field, Hug left no doubt about who was going to win the race, grinding through while averaging 3:07 per mile.
Coming into 2025, Hug was seeking his eighth win as part of a historic chase to catch South African Ernst van Dyk’s all-time record of 10 career victories in Boston. He first broke the tape in Boston in 2015, and has won each year since with the exceptions of 2019 and 2022 (when Romanchuk emerged as victor).
It was also a notable year as it marked the 50th anniversary of wheelchair racing in the marathon. Half a century after American Robert Hall became the first men’s wheelchair winner in Boston at 2:58:00, the event has become an annual test for the best athletes in the sport.
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“It means a lot to win this year, 50 years of wheelchair racing in Boston,” Hug said at the finish line.
Prior to the race, he referenced Hall and his original custom line of racing chairs (one of which Hug said he used in an early competition).
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