Susannah Scaroni wins 2025 Boston Marathon women’s wheelchair race
Scaroni claimed her second Boston Marathon win on Monday.
Susannah Scaroni has won the 2025 Boston Marathon in the women’s wheelchair division. She finished in 1:35:20.
Scaroni is no stranger to the podium. She won the race in 2023, finished second in 2018, and finished third in 2017, 2015, and 2014.
Scaroni won on the 50th anniversary of Bob Hall’s 1975 race that paved the way for the BAA to recognize wheelchair competitors as official entrants.
“The reason I am here today is because of hardworking people who had the tenacity and integrity to push for us to be here,” Scaroni said. “To be here because people knew that this was the right thing to do and they were able to advocate for that and work so hard for this, it means everything.”
The Tekoa, Wash. native is a six-time paralympic gold medalist. Her hometown is where she learned to love and adapt to hills, she said. She won gold in the 5,000 meter race while representing the United States in the 2020 Tokyo games. She earned three bronze medals in the 2024 Paris games.
She missed the last year’s Boston Marathon due to injury.
“It’s such a blessing to get to be here today,” Scaroni said. “It was amazing and such a surprise to have made a gap with such an awesome field of women. I’m so grateful.”
The race was tight for a while, but Scaroni eventually pulled away from top challengers Catherine DeBrunner and Manuela Schar, earning her second Boston Marathon win.
“Around Mile 15 and a half was pretty steep,” Scaroni said. “A little bit of a technical downhill with a little bit of a turn and, honestly, my years of experience helped me have a lot of confidence to not break on that hill and I think that helped me against Catharine DeBrunner, who is a phenomenal athlete but this was her first Boston. So I think this was the first and only time I’ll be able to use that skill.”
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