Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson
11-time Paralympic gold medallist and BBC athletics expert
“I can’t believe it. David Weir was in an amazing position and I’ve never seen Josh George come up like that. It’s the best race of Josh George’s life.”
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Updated 12.20pm
After Joshua George’s win in the men’s T53/54 wheelchair race, the peerless Tatyana McFadden has made it an American double in the women’s race.
McFadden has dominated women’s wheelchair racing in the last two years, winning back-to-back marathons in Boston, London, Chicago and New York and this win was her third in a row in London after her Boston success last Monday.
Her winning time of one minute 41.13 seconds smashes her own course record of 1:45.12 – a superb effort from the woman whose nickname is ‘The Beast’ and she finished over two minutes ahead of Switzerland’s Manuela Schaer.
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