Veteran wheelchair racer Ernst van Dyk finished second at the Boston Marathon on Monday, settling for the runner-up spot for the third year in a row at the prestigious annual 42.2km race in MA.
Hug took a third successive win and men's World Marathon Majors title after sprinting away from van Dyk to finish in a course record 1:18.04.
Marcel Hug edged out Ernst van Dyk at the finish line., setting a new world record.
Manuela Schar made it a Swiss sweep by taking the women's division, shattering the Boston record in a time of 1:28:17. Japan's Hiroyuki Yamamoto finished third in 1:19:32.
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The old record was 1:18:25, set at the 2012 Boston Marathon, by Joshua Cassidy of Canada.
The top American man in the wheelchair division was Josh George, who crossed in 1:21:47.
By breaking the course record, Hug earned $10,000 to go along with the $20,000 for winning the race and $50,000 for clinching the Abbott World Marathon Majors Wheelchair series.
"It's always a tough start here for me as one of the lighter athletes and I just couldn't do enough to stick with Marcel in the first five kilometres", Fearnley said. "It was a Swiss day".
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