Eden Rainbow-Cooper

Eden Rainbow-Cooper made history earlier this year as the first British woman to win the Boston Marathon for the biggest win of her career.

She completed the course 90 seconds clear of her rivals after leading the entire race and crossed the line in 1:35.11.

The 23-year-old has flourished since taking up wheelchair racing with David Weir’s WeirArcher outfit in 2013. Her first international experience came two years later in Brazil, where she represented Great Britain at the Paralympic school Games and came away with three gold medals in the T54 100m, 400m and 1500m.

In 2019, she won three silver medals at the World Junior Championships in the middle to long distance events before she took a break from racing in 2021. She returned to represent England at the 2022 Commonwealth Games and won her first senior medal - silver in the T54 Women’s Marathon.

Eden made her senior debut on the track at the World Championships in Paris last year, finishing sixth in the 1500m and narrowly missing out on a medal with fourth place in the 5000m, but it is on the world marathon stage where she has been most successful this year.

After claiming second place at the Tokyo Marathon in March, Eden collected the Boston Marathon trophy the following month and is now considered one of the elite pack with consistent top-10 finishes on the major marathon circuit.