Boston - Switzerland's Marcel Hug has won the wheelchair race at the Boston Marathon in a world's best time.
Helped by a strong tailwind in the second half of the race, Schar powered to victory in 1hour 28min 17sec.
In her Boston Marathon debut, Edna Kiplagat of Kenya has won the women's elite race. That's a course record and the fastest time ever for a wheelchair marathon.
Amanda McGrory from Savoy, who is a graduate student at the UI, wound up second in 1:33.13, while Susannah Scaroni, a UI alum, finished third in 1:33.17.
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Susannah Scaroni took third a further four seconds back while McFadden completed the United States 2-3-4 by finishing in 1:35.05.
Defending women's champion Tatyana McFadden finished fourth, two weeks after having surgery.
She was, however, named the victor of the World Marathon Majors series. Hug passed 10-time champion Ernst van Dyk with about a mile to go, then held him off down the stretch to win the race.
Hiroyuki Yamamoto of Japan took third (1:19:32), followed by Kurt Fearnley of Australia (1:20:28) and Hiroki Nishida of Japan (1:20:28).
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