On the 50th anniversary of the first wheelchair race at the Boston Marathon, when Bob Hall took the tape, the desired fairytale among the home crowd may have been for another American man to bookend that half century of the push-rim division.
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But that would have been to ignore another sort of symmetry that Marcel Hug had signposted earlier in the week.

The most dominant racer in the entire history of the sport, Hug cut his teeth in a chair designed and marketed by Hall himself, and posted a picture on his Instagram feed of that chair in the build-up to the race.

And the great man was there to witness him lay down another winning chapter, as the Swiss 39-year-old beat the USA’s Daniel Romanchuk for his eighth Boston win.

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