This 12 months, the series finale marked the primary time the wheelchair prize cash is the same as the able-bodied division’s.
Your Abbott World Marathon Majors Series XIV champion, Marcel Hug. Picture: @WMMajors/Twitter.
JOHANNESBURG – America’s Susannah Scaroni and Swedish Marcel Hug grew to become Abbott World Marathon Majors Series XIV champions with victories within the males’s and ladies’s wheelchair races.
This 12 months, the series finale marked the primary time the wheelchair prize cash is the same as the able-bodied division’s – a transfer Hug referred to as extraordinarily important.
“For us in the sport, it’s very important but also outside of the sport, it’s a big sign to show this equality. And it’s a great message. For me it’s a dream come true that we are equal to able-bodied athletes,” said Hug.
CEO of the Abbott World Marathon Majors – Dawna Stone said the transfer to equating the wheelchair racing division with the elite runner division throughout the series competitors was an vital step for them as an organisation.
“We wish to champion all our elite athletes and by offering extra prize cash to our wheelchair division, we hope this can assist encourage others into the game.”
Your Abbott World Marathon Majors Series XIV champions:
Gotytom Gebreslase
Eliud Kipchoge
Susannah Scaroni
Marcel Hug #AbbottWMM pic.twitter.com/Xlxa7Qeot4Abbott WMMajors (@WMMajors) November 7, 2022
Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge and Ethiopia’s Gotytom Gebreslase have additionally been topped 2022 series champions.
Ethiopia’s Gebreslase is now the second lady from her nation after Gete Wami to win the title of the Abbott World Marathon Majors series.
Additional to the six, Abbott World Marathon Majors, the Olympic or Paralympic Marathons and World Athletics or World Para Athletics Championships are included within the series within the years they’re held.
This 12 months, the Series XIV started on the Tokyo Marathon in March and the champions had been topped on the TCS New York City Marathon in November.
Superb efficiency by s Evans Chebet and Sharon Lokedi successful the @nycmarathon. s Susannah Scaroni additionally wins the womens wheelchair class setting a course document. Congratulations all. pic.twitter.com/3XbCaRD0MP
U.S. Embassy Nairobi (@USEmbassyKenya) November 6, 2022
Everyone loves stats, proper?
Would you want to listen to some @nycmarathon #SixStarFinishers stats?
This 12 months in :
We gave out 71 Six Star medals
Of these, 22 got to girls and 49 to males
The common age of our #SixStarFinishers was 51 years, 1 monthAbbott WMMajors (@WMMajors) November 8, 2022
The champions of every AbbottWMM Series are the female and male athlete who scores the best variety of factors from the qualifying races through the scoring interval.
For an elite athlete throughout every scoring interval, factors from a most of two qualifying races can be counted they usually should begin in at the least two qualifying races through the series to be eligible for the prize. If an athlete earns factors in additional than two occasions, the athlete’s highest two finishes are scored.
The Wheelchair Series follows the identical guidelines, however factors from an athlete’s greatest 4 races depend in the direction of the entire or greatest 5 throughout years with Paralympic Games or World Championship marathons.
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Meanwhile, Cape Town Marathon is a candidate for choice to be a part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors alongside six of the biggest and most famed marathons on this planet.
The analysis course of will proceed over the following three years and if profitable, Cape Town will change into a part of the Abbott World Marathon Majors in 2025, becoming a member of Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York.
It was for the primary time in South African and African historical past that an elite wheelchair racing division was included in a marathon on the current Cape Town Marathon.
Sanlam Cape Town Marathon makes historical past with their inaugural Elite Wheelchair Division, with USA athlete Aaron Pike taking the win.
Top 3 Men:
1. Aaron Pike – 1:40:15
2. Ernst van Dyk – 1:44:02
3. Martin Velasco Soria – 1:46:43 pic.twitter.com/nFyDSLr3KoCape Town Marathon (@CTMarathon) October 16, 2022