BOSTON — A year after her string of Boston Marathon victories came to an end, Tatyana McFadden is back on top.
The University of Illinois graduate on Monday morning won the women’s push rim wheelchair race, coming in first with a time of 2 hours, 4 minutes, 39 seconds.
Among those McFadden outlasted was fellow U of I grad Susannah Scaroni, who placed runner-up.
Though McFadden’s result Monday goes down as the slowest winning time in 30 years — and well off her 2016 pace of 1:42.16 — the triumph marked McFadden’s fifth Boston Marathon title after she won four consecutive races from 2013 to 2016.