{"id":52172,"date":"2026-04-20T16:35:17","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:35:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/52172\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T16:35:17","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T16:35:17","slug":"marcel-hug-claims-his-ninth-boston-marathon-wheelchair-title-eden-rainbow-cooper-wins-womens-race-national-sports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/52172\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel Hug claims his ninth Boston Marathon wheelchair title, Eden Rainbow-Cooper wins women&#8217;s race | National Sports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Marcel Hug of Switzerland vaulted to the front of the field and cruised to win his ninth Boston Marathon wheelchair title, claiming the victory Monday in the 130th edition of the race in 1 hour, 16 minutes, 6 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Hug&#8217;s fourth consecutive win in Boston puts him into second place all-time in Boston men\u2019s wheelchair history, behind only South African great Ernst van Dyk\u2019s record 10 titles between 2001 and 2014. American racer Daniel Romanchuk was second in 1:22:44, followed by Jetze Plat of the Netherlands in 1:24:13.<\/p>\n<p>kAmx? E96 H@&gt;6?\u2019D C246[ t56? #2:?3@H\\r@@A6C @7 qC:E2:? 62C?65 96C D64@?5 H:? \ud83d\ude15 q@DE@?[ 4C@DD:?8 E96 7:?:D9 =:?6 \ud83d\ude15 `ib_id`] r2E96C:?6 s63CF??6C @7 $H:EK6C=2?5 H2D D64@?5 \ud83d\ude15 `ibaidh 2?5 %2EJ2?2 |4u2556? @7 E96 &amp;?:E65 $E2E6D H2D E9:C5 \ud83d\ude15 `ibeicb]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAmp&gt;6C:42? C246C $FD2??29 $42C@?:[ E96 a_ab 2?5 a_ad 492&gt;A:@?[ 5:5 ?@E 5676?5 96C E:E=6] $96 \ud83d\ude00 6IA64E:?8 96C 7:CDE 49:=5]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAmwF8 ;F&gt;A65 \ud83d\ude15 7C@?E @7 E96 7:6=5 BF:4&lt;=J[ 3F:=5:?8 2 `b\\D64@?5 25G2?E286 @G6C s2G:5 (6:C @7 qC:E2:? E9C66 &gt;:=6D :?E@ E96 C246] %92E =625 8C6H E@ dd D64@?5D 3J E96 92=7H2J A@:?E]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm$:?46 H:??:?8 E96 q6C=:? |2C2E9@? \ud83d\ude15 a_aa[ wF8 92D =@DE @?=J @?6 @7 E96 D6G6? H@C=5 &gt;2;@C E:E=6D[ H96? 96 7:?:D965 D64@?5 2E E96 }6H *@C&lt; |2C2E9@? \ud83d\ude15 a_ac]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>kAm%96 C246 42&gt;6 @? 2 4=62C &gt;@C?:?8 H:E9 DE2CE:?8 E6&gt;A6C2EFC6D \ud83d\ude15 E96 =@H c_D]k^Am<\/p>\n<p>k9C ^m<\/p>\n<p>kAmp! DA@CEDi k2 9C67lQ9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^DA@CEDQm9EEADi^^2A?6HD]4@&gt;^9F3^DA@CEDk^2mk^Am<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed without permission.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BOSTON (AP) \u2014 Marcel Hug of Switzerland vaulted to the front of the field and cruised to win&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":52173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4],"tags":[29555,29556,29557,29554,307,17,6220],"class_list":["post-52172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-switzerland","tag-boston-marathon","tag-marathons","tag-marcel-hug-boston-marathon-wheelchair","tag-parasports","tag-sports","tag-switzerland","tag-track-and-field"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ch\/116438009437184400","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ch\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}