A field of veteran wheelchair marathon racers will take to the start line for the gruelling 42.195km event in 2025 with four former winners looking to reinforce their dominance over the distance this year. The men’s race will see Jake Lappin, a two-time Gold Coast Wheelchair Marathon race winner (2022 and 2024) returning to defend his title. He’ll line up against fifty-one-year-old Kota Hokinoue, winner of the 2023 Gold Coast Wheelchair Marathon, who will fly the flag for Japan and go for the gold medal having settled for second place behind Lappin last year.
USA Paralympian Tyler Byers (43) will use his first time racing on the Gold Coast to make his mark with popular local Bill Chaffey (49), winner in 2015 and 2019, hot on his wheels and keen for another top placing this year. Relative newcomers to the marathon distance, Sam Rizzo (24) who made his international debut at the Gold Cost 2018 Commonwealth Games and Paralympic debut in Paris, and two-time Paralympian, Sam Carter (33) will be looking to edge out their more seasoned marathon competitors and take the finishers tape in hand this year.
In the women’s race, Madison de Rozario OAM, a three-time Gold Coast Wheelchair Marathon winner (2018, 2019 and 2022) who also boasts a swag of medals for Paralympics, Commonwealth Games and World Championships is the raging hot favourite. She’ll be joined on the start line by Mikaela Dingley who will be making her wheelchair marathon debut and has experience with the Gold Coast streets after winning the 2022 Gold Coast Wheelchair 10km.
The Gold Coast Wheelchair Men’s and Women’s Marathon boasts a record 16 entrants and with a wide-open field it will be an exciting race to watch with experience challenging youth for glory and finish line honours on the day.
The men’s race record is 1:30:18 set by Kurt Fearnley OAM and the women’s race record is 1:43:45 set by Christie Dawes. Both records were set in 2016 the year both athletes were tuning up for the 2016 Rio Paralympics.
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