{"id":297471,"date":"2025-10-12T14:26:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:26:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297471\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T14:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T14:26:11","slug":"susannah-scaroni-scores-epic-chicago-marathon-comeback-nbc-chicago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/297471\/","title":{"rendered":"Susannah Scaroni scores epic Chicago Marathon comeback \u2013 NBC Chicago"},"content":{"rendered":"

Susannah Scaroni returned to the top of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon<\/a> podium, cruising her way to a comeback victory after a flat tire kept her out of contention last year.<\/p>\n

Scaroni<\/a>, who took an early lead and never looked back, finished just off course record time with an unofficial finish of 1:38:12. The course record in the women’s wheelchair event in Chicago was one hour and 38 minutes. <\/p>\n

Scaroni was battling a trio of past Chicago winners, including 2024 champ Catherine Debrunner, two-time victor Manuela Sch\u00e4r and nine-time winner Tatyana McFadden of the United States. Debrunner set the world record for women’s wheelchair in 2023 with a time of 1:34:16 in Berlin. <\/p>\n

Last year, Scaroni experienced a flat front tire three miles into the race, but fought her way back to finish in 12th place.<\/p>\n

She won the TCS New York City Marathon later that year and, since then, has placed second in the Tokyo Marathon and won the 2025 Bank of America Boston Marathon. A week after that, she won second place in the London Marathon.<\/p>\n

Scaroni had previously won the 2022 Chicago Marathon after returning from a frightening injury.<\/a><\/p>\n

In 2021, Scaroni was on a training run at the University of Illinois when she was struck by a car.<\/p>\n

The force of the impact caused a \u201cburst fracture\u201d in her T8 vertebrae, leaving her in a brace for four months, and completely destroyed her racing chair.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt truly gave me a new perspective,\u201d she said at the time. \u201cI have a new appreciation to be alive, and so I think about that constantly now, and everything\u2019s a celebration and an opportunity.\u201d<\/p>\n

Check back for more on this developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Susannah Scaroni returned to the top of the Bank of America Chicago Marathon podium, cruising her way to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":297472,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5124],"tags":[74789,960,5386,1818],"class_list":{"0":"post-297471","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-chicago","8":"tag-bank-of-america-chicago-marathon","9":"tag-chicago","10":"tag-il","11":"tag-illinois"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115361663075559893","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297471\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}