Switzerland's Edith Hunkeler wins 2nd Boston wheelchair
Winning the women's push-rim wheelchair division of the 110th annual Boston Marathon today in 1:43:41, 33-year-old Esolzwil, Switzerland native Edith Hunkeler buried four (4) previous top-three finishes.
Hunkeler was racing at Boston for the first time since 2004 after achieving a personal best with her second-place finish (1:41:13) behind Cheri Blauwet. Her performance that year is the 10th all-time best performance by a woman at Boston.
Hunkeler’s second best Boston performance came in 2002 when she finished first in (1:45:57). Her other top finishes include third in 2003 (1:56:54), second in 2001 (1:53:58) when she crossed the finish line four seconds behind winner Louise Sauvage, and third in 1999 (1:43:48) when she finished just over a minute behind Sauvage and Jean Driscoll.
Elsewhere she has won the last two ING New York City Marathons, finishing in 1:54:51 in 2005 and 1:53:27 in 2004. She took home two silver medals (1500m and 5,000m) from the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens. She became paralyzed in a car accident at the age of 22.
Source: bostonmarathon.org, OLN
Hunkeler was racing at Boston for the first time since 2004 after achieving a personal best with her second-place finish (1:41:13) behind Cheri Blauwet. Her performance that year is the 10th all-time best performance by a woman at Boston.
Hunkeler’s second best Boston performance came in 2002 when she finished first in (1:45:57). Her other top finishes include third in 2003 (1:56:54), second in 2001 (1:53:58) when she crossed the finish line four seconds behind winner Louise Sauvage, and third in 1999 (1:43:48) when she finished just over a minute behind Sauvage and Jean Driscoll.
Elsewhere she has won the last two ING New York City Marathons, finishing in 1:54:51 in 2005 and 1:53:27 in 2004. She took home two silver medals (1500m and 5,000m) from the 2004 Paralympic Games in Athens. She became paralyzed in a car accident at the age of 22.
Source: bostonmarathon.org, OLN
posted by WalkSports.com | 12:12 PM
1 Comments:
Thought you might be interested to know that I've met Cheri before, she's a close friend of my friend Chris. She's really an amazing person -- elite wheelchair racer, Stanford med student, and all-around nice gal. I'm not sure why she wasn't racing Boston this year, but I'll ask my friend Chris when I see him tonight.
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