2023-06-28 12:53:48
– Marcel Hug rolls for gold thanks to an ultra-fast single-seater
The Swiss Paraplegic Foundation has decided to manufacture “the fastest wheelchair in the world” for the multiple Paralympic champion using techniques borrowed from F1. To see Friday at Athletissima in Lausanne.
Posted today at 2:53 p.m.
It was in 2021, at the Tokyo Olympics, following the Covid had swept the planet and the calendar, that Marcel Hug exploited the power of his car.
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The strength of the arms alone is enough to propel this Formula 1: at the wheel of this wheelchair – “the fastest ever designed”, according to the engineers -, Marcel Hug won four gold medals at the Paralympic Games in Tokyo, in the category T54, and on November 21, 2021 in Oita (Japan) and broke the marathon world record in the staggering time of 1h 17’47”. “One hour and seventeen on the marathon, exclaims Jean-Marc Berset, Paralympic athlete, who was already on the trip to Seoul (1988). In the 1990s, I managed a time of 1:30 and it was the world record at the time.
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