Winners Announced for 2025's Shepherd Center Wheelchair Division of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race
Susannah Scaroni, Daniel Romanchuk race up Hope Hill to first-place finishes.
Thousands of spectators watched the 44th Shepherd Center Wheelchair Division of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race on July 4, 2025, cheering on the best wheelchair racers in the world in Atlanta's iconic race.
This year, Susannah Scaroni, 34, Champaign, Illinois, won the women’s open division with a finishing time of 21:26 and will take home a $12,500 prize for her first place finish. This is her fifth win. In the men’s open, Daniel Romanchuk, 27, of Champaign, Illinois, took the crown to win with a finishing time of 18:36. It is his seventh win and comes with a $12,500 prize.
“We are thrilled to welcome the world’s most elite racers back to Atlanta for Shepherd Center's Wheelchair Division of The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Peachtree Road Race,” said Rebecca Washburn, MS, manager of Shepherd Center’s Beyond Therapy® and wellness programs. “It is an especially meaningful year as Shepherd Center celebrates its 50th year and reflects on how our partnership with the Atlanta Track Club and the AJC Peachtree Road Race has been an integral part of our history – both in serving as a catalyst for the inclusion of athletes with disabilities and showing patients at Shepherd Center what’s possible as they cheer on the athletes on race day out in front of Shepherd Center.”
The 6.2-mile competition began on Lenox Road in the heart of Buckhead, Atlanta’s shopping district, and followed Peachtree Road for six miles, passing Shepherd Center, before slicing through the heart of Midtown to the finish line at 10th Street and Piedmont Park. The race is one of the country's largest and fastest wheelchair 10Ks.
New this year, in honor of Shepherd Center’s 50th anniversary, the name of the famously known Cardiac Hill, which starts near Peachtree Battle just before Mile 3 and continues to the top at Piedmont Hospital, will be changed to Hope Hill to reflect Shepherd’s mission of helping people with a temporary or permanent disability caused by injury or disease rebuild their lives with hope, independence, and dignity. Spectators will line the incline to encourage participants through one of the race's most challenging stretches, and to honor the temporary renaming, a commemorative street sign will be placed along the hill.
The first-place finishers in the open men’s, women’s, and quad divisions received peach-shaped crystalline trophies in a ceremony following the race.
The Atlanta Track Club was the event's platinum sponsor, and MARTA was the silver sponsor. Other donors included InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta and the Kyle Pease Foundation. Sponsors defrayed travel and lodging expenses for racers and awarded cash prizes to winners.
Learn more about the results from the Shepherd Center Wheelchair Division of The Atlanta-Journal Constitution Peachtree Road Race.
With five decades of experience, Shepherd Center provides world-class clinical care, research, and family support for people experiencing the most complex conditions, including spinal cord and brain injuries, multi-trauma, traumatic amputations, stroke, multiple sclerosis, and pain. An elite center ranked by U.S. News as one of the nation’s top hospitals for rehabilitation, Shepherd Center is also recognized as both Spinal Cord Injury and Traumatic Brain Injury Model Systems. Shepherd Center treats thousands of patients annually with unmatched expertise and unwavering compassion to help them begin again.