Women's Wheelchair: Debrunner dominates as McFadden and Scaroni battle to the wire

• Catherine Debrunner, 1:40:02 — wire-to-wire winner, posting the fastest women's split on the 5K→4M stretch and never relinquishing the lead across all seven checkpoints.
• Four seconds separated 2nd and 3rd: Tatyana McFadden (1:48:28) edged Susannah Scaroni (1:48:32) for the runner-up spot — McFadden's fastest women's split on the 26M→Finish segment proved the difference.
• Scaroni's 2nd-fastest women's split on 6M→10K kept her in the hunt through the middle miles, but McFadden's closing kick was the decisive move.
• Eden Rainbow-Cooper, 25, held 5th from start to finish in 1:55:51, posting the fastest women's split on the 3M→5K segment — the most consistent ride outside the podium.

Cool, overcast conditions — 51°F with barely a breath of wind — set the stage for one of the sharper women's wheelchair fields in recent memory, and Catherine Debrunner wasted no time making her intentions clear. The 31-year-old from Geuensee led from checkpoint one through checkpoint seven, averaging 3:49 per mile and clocking the fastest women's split on the 5K→4M stretch. Her 1:40:02 is a commanding performance, and it brings her back to the top step in New York — she won here in 2023 in 1:39:32, in the editions we have on record, making this her second New York title.

Behind her, the race for second was a genuine battle. Susannah Scaroni — three-time prior winner here (2024, 2025, and 2022 in the editions we have) — moved with purpose through the middle of the course, running the 2nd-fastest women's split on the 6M→10K segment to sit as high as 2nd at one checkpoint. But Tatyana McFadden, who had drifted as far back as 4th at one point, refused to let the podium slip away. McFadden reeled Scaroni back in and then sealed second place with the fastest women's closing split from 26M to the finish. The result: McFadden 1:48:28, Scaroni 1:48:32 — four seconds after nearly two hours of racing.

Madison De Rozario ran a measured and steady 1:53:06 to take 4th, posting the 2nd-fastest women's split on the 5K→4M segment and never straying from that position across the entire race. Rainbow-Cooper's 1:55:51 in 5th rounded out a top five that was separated by a clean 15+ minutes from the rest of the 15-woman field — a testament to just how elite the front pack was on this November morning in New York.