Jin Hua of China has gone by Tomoki Suzuki of Japan; they take silver and bronze respectively.

In the women’s race, another Swiss legend, Catherine Debrunner, leads by a way; Susannah Scaroni of USA lies second with Madison de Rozario of Australia third.

Marcel Hug of Switzerland wins men’s T54 marathon gold for the third time in a row!

Hug comes around the final corner and the line awaits him! He’s destroyed the field!

Hug rides over cobbles, and that must be horrible – I know how eager people in regular chairs are to avoid them, but on these racing affairs it must be something else. He’s nearly there, though – the gold will soon be his.

Marcel Hug, who took four golds in Tokyo but so far here has had to satisfy himself with two silver and one bronze, is well in front in the T54 men’s marathon. Second is Tomoki Suzuki of Japan with Jin Hua of China third and David Weir of GB fourth, but none have a prayer of catching the leader.

As per LEXI, T12 classification “is for runners with a visual impairment. Their vision is constricted to a radius of less than five degrees and/or the ability to recognise a moving object at a distance of one metre.”

And T54 “is for wheelchair track athletes who have full function in their body with moderately or highly affected movement in the legs or the absence of legs. All generate power through the full range of body and arm movements, providing good acceleration from the start and highly responsive manoeuvring during the race.”

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