These athletes will be racing in the 7-mile Falmouth Road Race, and the Wheelchair Mile at the Falmouth Track Festival.
2021 ASICS Falmouth Road Race champion and multiple time top finisher. Hermin is also the course record holder at the Cooper River Bridge Run, as well as multiple time champion of the BAA 10k (2022, 2023, and 2024) as well as the 2023 BAA Half Marathon champion. Hermin is known for wanting to build a community in wheelchair racing through socialization and teaching people about the sport.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2023: 3rd (25:11)
2022: 2nd (25:30)
2021: 1st (25:24)
2019: 3rd (25:28)
2018: 2nd (28:41)
2017: 6th (26:59)
2016: 2nd (29:15)
2015: 4th (26:57)
2014: 4th (27:25)
2013: 6th (28:10)
5-time Falmouth Road Race champion Krige Schabort, who lost both legs as a corporal in the South African Army when his unit came under attack in 1987 in the Angola Border war, became a U.S. citizen in 2009. A 6-time Paralympian — including the triathlon in 2016 — Schabort has also competed in Hawaii’s famed Ironman Triathlon.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2023: 5th (29:21)
2022: 4th (25:36)
2019: 6th (27:42)
2017: 2nd (23:29)
2014: 2nd (25:13)
2013: 1st (24:170
2012: 1st (24:16)
2011: 1st (24:11)
2009: 1st (26:13)
2008: 1st (23:35)
2023 ASICS Falmouth Road Race runner-up Miguel Jimenez Vergara attempts to become a champion this year. Fresh off a great showing at the Paralympic trials, as well as victories in the Broad Street Run and Kessler 10k, Miguel is going for victories in both the 7-mile and Elite Mile race.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2023: 2nd (24:32)
2022: 7th (27:51)
2022 Sports and Spokes Jr. Athlete of the Year Delmace Mayo makes his return to Falmouth this year. An up and coming star in para athletics, Delmace was the first wheelchair athlete to compete at the New Balance Indoor Nationals for Track (mile). He was also a US Paralympian Track & Field High School All American for the 100m. Competed on the USA team at the WorldAbility Sport games in December 2023 in Thailand & placed 2nd in the 5000 meter. 1st place for Wheelchair Mile at New Balance Indoor High School Nationals in March 2024. He was also profiled in the book Tenacious: Fifteen Adventures Alongside Disabled Athletes. In addition to wheelchair racing, Delmace also competes in sled hockey, WCMX, basketball, surfing, and baseball.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2023: 5th (29:21)
2022: 11th (32:44)
2021: 8th (36:28)
Four-time Falmouth Road Race Champion, and course record holder. Daniel is a two time Paralympian with a gold medal in the 400m and a bronze medal in the marathon in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympics. He is also the world record holder in the 800m. He was also the youngest to win the Boston Marathon in 2019, and the first American to win since 1993.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2022: 1st (22:02)
2019: 1st (21:58) *Course Record
2018: 1st (23:48)
2017: 1st (23:16)
2013: 4th (26:51)
5-time Falmouth Road Race champion Krige Schabort, who lost both legs as a corporal in the South African Army when his unit came under attack in 1987 in the Angola Border war, became a U.S. citizen in 2009. A 6-time Paralympian — including the triathlon in 2016 — Schabort has also competed in Hawaii’s famed Ironman Triathlon.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2022: 4th (25:36)
2019: 6th (27:42)
2017: 2nd (23:29)
2014: 2nd (25:13)
2013: 1st (24:170
2012: 1st (24:16)
2011: 1st (24:11)
2009: 1st (26:13)
2008: 1st (23:35)
James graduated from the University of Illinois in 2014. That same year he won Grandma’s Marathon and was 9th at the BAA Boston Marathon. In 2016 he represented the U.S. at the Paralympics.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2021: 2nd (27:18)
2019: 7th (27:46)
2017: 4th (26:08)
2015: 1st (21:42)
2014: 1st (23:42)
2016 Paralympian for Nigeria, Hannah Babalola returns to Falmouth this year. Coming off a win at the 2023 Cooper River Bridge Run and the 2022 Twin Cities Marathon, Hannah looks to return to the podium again in Falmouth.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2023: 3rd (31:26)
2022: 4th (35:34)
2018: 4th (35:47)
2017: 2nd (29:12)
2016 Falmouth Road Race Wheelchair Division champion and 2021 Paralympian Yen Hoang makes her return this year to Falmouth.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2022: 3rd (30:05)
2017: 4th (33:19)
2016: 1st (35:59)
Falmouth veteran Maddie Wilson is making her 8th Falmouth appearance at only 15 years old. She has competed in over 30 10k races and 70 5k races, and has medaled in wheelchair track races in distances from 100m to 3000m.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2023: 4th (41:28)
2022: 7th (45:27)
2021: 4th (48:26)
2019: 5th (52:25)
2018: 6th (1:00:17)
2017: 6th (1:01:19)
2016: 6th (1:16:42)
A 2020 Tokyo Paralympian, Jenna is returning to compete in Falmouth this year. Jenna has won the gold in the 2019 Parapan American Games in the 800m, as well as reaching the podium at the Chicago Marathon in 2021, winning third place. In 2023, she claimed victory at the Boilermaker 15k, Grandma’s Marathon, and Kessler 10k.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2016: 3rd (38:03)
A multiple time top finisher in the ASICS Falmouth Road Race, Katrina Lambeth returns again this year to compete in the wheelchair division. Katrina was a member of the US Paralympic Track and Field Team, and she won first place at the 2019 LA Marathon.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2019: 2nd (28:06)
2018: 2nd (32:38)
2017: 3rd (29:32)
2015: 2nd (30:10)
2014: 2nd (33:38)
2021 ASICS Falmouth Road Race and 2023 Broad Street Run champion Emi Perry returns to compete in Falmouth this year. Emi recently relocated to Colorado Springs to train at the US Olympic & Paralympic Training Center for the Paratriathlon. Emi has competed in multiple World Triathlon Championship Series races in Yokohama, Japan, Montreal, Canada, and Long Beach, California.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2021: 1st (37:59)
2022 ASICS Falmouth Road Race champion and course record holder Susannah Scaroni returns to defend her title this year. Scaroni has dominated the road circuit in 2023 winning the Boston Marathon, New York Mini 10K and AJC Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta. She recently broke the world record for the 10k at the BAA 10k in June 2022. Susannah is a 3 time Paralympian and won the gold medal in the 5,000m in the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games, in addition to the bronze medal in the 800m.
FALMOUTH HISTORY:
2022: 1st (25:30) *Course Record