Marcel Hug of Switzerland dominated the Boston Marathon men’s wheelchair race on Monday, leading by so much — and for so long — that he spent nearly all of it riding alone.
In winning the event for a sixth time, Hug crossed the finish line in an unofficial time of 1 hour, 17 minutes 6 seconds, smashing the course record he set in 2017 by nearly a minute.
Hug, 37, avenged last year’s misfortune — citing illness, he withdrew less than an hour before the start — by completing the hilly course with his next closest competitors more than two miles behind him.