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Contact:
Barbara Huebner, 617-717-9855
New Balance Falmouth Road Race
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Tatyana McFadden to Make Her Debut at New Balance Falmouth Road Race
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3-time Paralympic Gold Medalist Will be Joined by 5-time Falmouth Champion Krige Schabort
to Celebrate 40th Running of Wheelchair Division
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FALMOUTH, MA (August 7, 2014)—Tatyana McFadden, a three-time Paralympic gold medalist who in 2013 became the first athlete to win the Grand Slam of marathons in London, Boston, Chicago, and New York in the same year, will compete at the New Balance Falmouth Road Race, organizers announced today.
Headlining the men’s field will be defending champion Krige Schabort, a two-time Paralympic medalist and two-time winner of the New York City Marathon. The 50-year-old Schabort, a native of South Africa who became a U.S. citizen in 2009, has won here five times (2008, 2009, 2011, 2012, and 2013) and holds the course record of 23:35, set in 2008.
McFadden, who turned 25 on the day she won her second-consecutive Boston Marathon in April, will also make several appearances to help celebrate the 40th running of the wheelchair division, one of the first offered by any road race in the country when it began in 1975. Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital of Cape Cod is in its first year as Official Sponsor of the wheelchair division.
“Not only is the race excited that Tatyana has chosen to compete here, but the entire town is honored,” said Scott Ghelfi, president of the Falmouth Road Race, Inc., board of directors. “What Tatyana accomplished professionally last year is historic, and the story behind her success is among the most inspirational any of us has ever heard. We couldn’t find a more-vivid example of how far wheelchair sports have come than for stars like Tatyana McFadden and Krige Schabort to be on the starting line of the New Balance Falmouth Road Race for its 40th running.”
In 2013, McFadden won not only the Grand Slam, but also six gold medals on the track at the IPC World Championships, at 100, 200, 400, 800, 1500, and 5000 meters. She was undefeated for the year. Then, at the 2014 Paralympics in Sochi, she won a silver medal in cross-country skiing. The 10-time Paralympic medalist was born in Russia with spina bifida, and spent the first six years of her life in an orphanage there, walking on her hands for lack of a wheelchair, before she was adopted by Deborah McFadden and brought to the U.S.
She will face, among others, two-time defending champion Jill Moore, 21, of Champaign, IL, and Katrina Gerhard, 17, a student at Acton-Boxborough (MA) High School who recently won nine events at the National Junior Disability Championships.
For the men, 27-year-old James Senbeta, the 2013 Falmouth Mile champion and New Balance Falmouth Road Race runner-up from Savoy, IL, also returns. He will be challenged by Tony Nogueira, 46, from Glen Ridge, NJ, who won this race four consecutive times from 2002-2005.
Also planning to be on hand Race Weekend to celebrate the anniversary are eight-time Falmouth winner Craig Blanchette, 46, and Ann Walters, who won the women’s race five times between 1987 and 1993.
For more information on the 42nd running of the New Balance Falmouth Road Race, which will begin at 9:00 AM on Sunday, August 17, 2014, please visit our website at www.falmouthroadrace.com; our Facebook page at www.facebook.com/falmouthroadrace; and our Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/FalmouthRR.
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About Falmouth Road Race
The New Balance Falmouth Road Race was established in 1973 and has become one of the premier running events of the summer season. Each year the race draws an international field of Olympians, elite and recreational runners out to enjoy the iconic 7-mile seaside course. The non-profit Falmouth Road Race organization is committed to promoting health and fitness through community programs and philanthropic giving.
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