Susannah Scaroni

{{Short description|American Paralympic athlete (born 1991)}} {{Use mdy dates|date=January 2020}} {{Infobox sportsperson | honorific_prefix = | name = Susannah Scaroni | honorific_suffix = | image = Susannah Scaroni 129th-boston-marathon 54475971383 (1).jpg | image_size =  | alt = | caption = Scaroni after winning at the 2025 Boston Marathon  | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1991|5|16}} | birth_place = Burns, Oregon, U.S. | death_date =  | death_place = | hometown = Tekoa, Washington, U.S. | alma_mater = University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign | occupation = Para-athlete, dietitian | height = 1.65m  | country = United States | sport = Wheelchair racing | disability = Paraplegia | disability_class = T54 | universityteam = Illinois Fighting Illini  | show-medals = | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Country| {{flagu|United States}} }} {{MedalCompetition | Paralympic Games }} {{MedalGold| 2020 Tokyo | 5000 m T54 }} {{MedalSilver| 2024 Paris | 5000 m T54 }} {{MedalBronze| 2020 Tokyo | 800 m T54 }} {{MedalBronze|2024 Paris|800 m T54}} {{MedalBronze|2024 Paris|1500 m T54}} {{MedalBronze|2024 Paris|Marathon T54}} {{Medal|Competition| World Championships }} {{Medal|Bronze| 2019 Dubai | 800 m T54 }} {{Medal|Bronze| 2019 Dubai | 5000 m T54 }} {{Medal|Bronze| 2023 Paris | 5000 m T54 }} | medaltemplates-title = | module3 = }}

'''Susannah Scaroni''' (born May 16, 1991) is an American Paralympic athlete.<ref name="team_usa_profile">{{Cite web |url=https://www.teamusa.org/para-track-and-field/athletes/Susannah-Scaroni |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025000233/http://www.teamusa.org/para-track-and-field/athletes/susannah-scaroni |archive-date=October 25, 2015 |title=Susannah Scaroni |website=Team USA |url-status=dead |access-date=January 7, 2020}}</ref> She won the gold medal in the women's 5000 meters T54 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan and the silver in the same event in Paris, 2024.<ref name="british_sprinters_grab_gold_on_day_two_of_athletics_tokyo_2020_paralympics_2021">{{Cite news |last=Houston |first=Michael |date=August 28, 2021 |title=British sprinters grab gold on day two of athletics at Tokyo 2020 Paralympics |work=Inside the Games |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1112250/tokyo-2020-paralympics-athletics |access-date=August 28, 2021}}</ref><ref name="Paris 5000">{{cite news |last=McCord |first=Madison |date=2024-08-31 |title=Tekoa native Susannah Scaroni wins third Paralympic medal with silver in 5,000-meters |url=https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2024/aug/31/tekoa-native-susannah-scaroni-wins-third-paralympi/ |access-date=31 August 2024 |newspaper=The Spokesman-Review |location=Spokane, WA |language=English}}</ref> She also represented the United States at the 2012 Summer Paralympics and at the 2016 Summer Paralympics.<ref name="team_usa_profile"/>

==Early life== Scaroni injured her spinal cord at the T12 vertebra in a car accident when she was five years old, and had to use a wheelchair thereafter.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Picklesimer |first1=Phyllis |title=U of I dietetics student will race in Paralympics |url=https://aces.illinois.edu/news/u-i-dietetics-student-will-race-paralympics |access-date=December 28, 2021 |work=College of Agricultural, Consumer & Environmental Sciences |publisher=University of Illinois Urbana–Champaign |date=August 17, 2012}}</ref>

== Career == At the 2012 Summer Paralympics, she finished in 8th place in the women's marathon T54 event.<ref name="team_usa_profile"/> Four years later, she also competed in the same event finishing in 7th place.<ref name="team_usa_profile"/> She also competed in the women's 800 meters T54 event at the 2016 Summer Paralympics where she did not qualify to compete in the final.

In 2018, she won the Peachtree Road Race held in Atlanta, Georgia in the wheelchair category with a time of 22:49.05.

In 2019, she competed at the World Para Athletics Championships winning the bronze medals in the women's 5000 m T54 and women's 800 m T54 events.

She represented the United States at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan.<ref name="usa_picks_tokyo_2020">{{Cite news |url=https://www.insidethegames.biz/articles/1085963/us-wheelchair-athletes-tokyo-2020 |title=United States pick first wheelchair marathon athletes for Tokyo 2020 |last=Rowbottom |first=Mike |date=October 15, 2019 |work=Inside the Games |access-date=January 6, 2020 }}</ref>

In 2022 she won the 2022 Open Women's Division of the Shepherd Center Wheelchair Division of the AJC Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta with the time 21:14.71 setting a new course record.

She trains with the University of Illinois wheelchair racing team.

=== Marathons === thumb|Scaroni at the 2017 London Marathon thumb|Sacroni in 2018

Scaroni has also competed in numerous marathon competitions including most marathons that are part of the World Marathon Majors.

In the Chicago Marathon she won 1st place in 2022 and 2025, and finished in 2nd place in the 2012, 3rd in the 2018 and 4th in 2019.

In the London Marathon Scaroni also finished in 7th place both in 2013 and 2016, 4th in 2014, 5th in 2015, and 3rd both in 2017 and 2018.

In the Boston Marathon she ended up in 3rd place in 2014, 2015 and 2017, 4th in 2016, 2nd in 2018, 1st in 2023, and 1st in 2025.

In the Tokyo Marathon Scaroni ended it in 5th place in 2018 and 3rd in 2019.<ref name="women_wheelchair_race_tokyo_marathon_2018">{{Cite web |title=Women's wheelchair race |url=http://www.marathon.tokyo/media/press-release/pdf/fed5dd9044ab4da7a42508d37e8b72c6.pdf |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180327023422/http://www.marathon.tokyo/media/press-release/pdf/fed5dd9044ab4da7a42508d37e8b72c6.pdf |archive-date=March 27, 2018 |access-date=June 28, 2020 |website=2018 Tokyo Marathon}}</ref>

In 2019, she also ended in 3rd in the New York City Marathon.<ref name="nyc_marathon_results_nbc_sports_2019">{{Cite news |date=November 3, 2019 |title=2019 New York City Marathon Results |work=NBC Sports |url=https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/11/03/new-york-city-marathon-results-nyc/ |url-status=live |access-date=August 21, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191112071810/https://olympics.nbcsports.com/2019/11/03/new-york-city-marathon-results-nyc/ |archive-date=November 12, 2019}}</ref>

In 2013 and 2014, Scaroni won the Los Angeles Marathon in the wheelchair category.

She was placed 6th in the women's marathon T54 event at the 2020 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, Japan. She won a bronze medal at the 2024 Paralympics in Paris in the T54 Marathon. Catherine Debrunner had led from the start and Madisson de Rozario came second.<ref>{{Cite web |date=8 September 2024 |title=PARIS 2024 PARALYMPIC GAMES: MARCEL HUG AND CATHERINE DEBRUNNER CLAIM T54 MARATHON TITLES |url=https://olympics.com/en/news/paris-2024-paralympic-games-marcel-hug-catherine-debrunner-t54-marathon-gold}}</ref>

== Achievements ==

{| {{AchievementTable|Event=yes}} |- !colspan="6"|Representing {{flagu|United States}} |- | rowspan=2 | 2012 | Summer Paralympics | London, United Kingdom | 8th | Marathon | 1:58:37 |- | Chicago Marathon | Chicago, United States | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Marathon | 1:56:30 |- | rowspan=2 | 2013 | Los Angeles Marathon | Los Angeles, United States | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Marathon | 1:54:39 |- | London Marathon | London, United Kingdom | 7th | Marathon | 1:50:47 |- | rowspan=3 | 2014 | Los Angeles Marathon | Los Angeles, United States | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Marathon | 1:54:54 |- | London Marathon | London, United Kingdom | 4th | Marathon | 1:51:01 |- | Boston Marathon | Boston, United States | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | Marathon | 1:38:33 |- | rowspan=2 | 2015 | Boston Marathon | Boston, United States | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | Marathon | 1:57:21 |- | London Marathon | London, United Kingdom | 5th | Marathon | 1:47:06 |- | rowspan=4 | 2016 | Boston Marathon | Boston, United States | 4th | Marathon | 1:46:53 |- | London Marathon | London, United Kingdom | 7th | Marathon | 1:52:50 |- | rowspan=2 | Summer Paralympics | rowspan=2 | Rio de Janeiro, Brazil | 6th (heats) | 800 m | 1:56.42 |- | 7th | Marathon | 1:38:47 |- | rowspan=2 | 2017 | Boston Marathon | Boston, United States | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | Marathon | 1:33:17 |- | London Marathon | London, United Kingdom | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | Marathon | 1:47:37 |- | rowspan=5 | 2018 | Tokyo Marathon | Tokyo, Japan | 5th | Marathon | 1:54:02 |- | Boston Marathon | Boston, United States | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Marathon | 2:20:01 |- | London Marathon | London, United Kingdom | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | Marathon | 1:43:00 |- | Peachtree Road Race | Atlanta, United States | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 10,000 m | 22:49.05 |- | Chicago Marathon | Chicago, United States | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | Marathon | 1:44:48 |- | rowspan=3 | 2019 | Tokyo Marathon | Tokyo, Japan | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | Marathon | 1:54:32 |- | Chicago Marathon | Chicago, United States | 4th | Marathon | |- | New York City Marathon | New York City, United States | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | Marathon | 1:51:37 |- | rowspan=3 | 2021 | rowspan=3 | Summer Paralympics | rowspan=3 | Tokyo, Japan | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 5000 m | 10:52.57 |- | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | 800 m | 1:44.43 |- | 6th | Marathon | 1:41:04 |- | rowspan=10 | 2022 | Chicago 13.1 | Chicago, United States | 1st | Half Marathon | 46:07 |- | New York Mini 10K | New York City, United States | 1st | 10K | 0:21:10 |- | B.A.A. 10K | Boston, United States | 1st | 10K | 0:21:56 |- | Grandma's Marathon | Duluth, Minnesota – United States | 1st | Marathon | 1:27:31 |- | Peachtree Road Race | Atlanta, United States | bgcolor=gold | 1st | 10K | 21:14.71 |- | London Marathon | London, United Kingdom | bgcolor=silver | 2nd | Marathon | 1:42.21 |- | Berlin Marathon | Berlin, Germany | bgcolor=cc9966 | 3rd | Marathon | 1:36.51 |- | Chicago Marathon | Chicago, United States | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Marathon | 1:45.48 |- | New York City Marathon | New York City, United States | bgcolor=gold | 1st | Marathon | 1:42:43 |- | Ōita International Wheelchair Marathon | Ōita City, Japan | 2nd | Marathon | 1:38:01<ref>{{cite web |url= https://global.honda/sustainability/community/activities/column2/oita.html |title= The 41st Oita International Wheelchair Marathon Report |last= |first= |date= |website= Globel Honda |publisher= Honda|access-date= 10 March 2023|quote=}}</ref> |- | rowspan=1 | 2023 | Boston Marathon | Boston, United States | bgcolor=gold |1st | Marathon | 1:41:45 |- | rowspan=10 | 2025 | Boston Marathon | Boston, United States | bgcolor=gold |1st | Marathon | 1:35:20 <ref>{{cite web |url= https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/olympics/2025/04/21/boston-marathon-2025-updates-results-tracking-highlights/83188287007/|title= Boston Marathon 2025 results: Sharon Lokedi smashes women's record, John Korir also wins|website= USA Today}}</ref> |- | Tokyo Marathon | Tokyo, Japan | bgcolor=silver |2nd | Marathon | 1:36.28 |- | Sydney Marathon | Sydney, Australia | bgcolor=gold |1st | Marathon | 1:44.52 |- | Chicago Marathon | Chicago, United States | bgcolor=gold |1st | Marathon | 1:38.14 |- | New York City Marathon | New York City, United States | bgcolor=gold |1st | Marathon | 1:42.10 |}

== References == {{reflist}}

== External links == {{Commons category}} * {{USOPC|SC/Susannah-Scaroni}} * {{IPC|id=susannah-scaroni|id2=1066578}} * [https://www.paralympic.org/tokyo-2020/athletes?individualId=e536e18c-afe7-37be-afb6-81c459a2aeb0 Susannah Scaroni at the IPC Tokyo 2020 website] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210924052918/https://www.paralympic.org/tokyo-2020/athletes?individualId=e536e18c-afe7-37be-afb6-81c459a2aeb0 |date=September 24, 2021 }}

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