Daniel Romanchuk, a 22-year-old Tokyo Paralympic qualifier, has recorded the fastest wheelchair marathon in history, according to the New York Road Runners.
Romanchuk covered 26.2 miles in 1 hour, 13 minutes, 57 seconds in a straight line through Central Illinois on Thursday — an average of 2 minutes, 49 seconds per mile.
Romanchuk was competing in the Virtual New York City Marathon in lieu of the in-person, five-borough race that was canceled this year and that Romanchuk won in 2018 and 2019.
The previous fastest time in history was 1:18:04, set by Swiss Marcel Hug at the 2017 Boston Marathon.