Tatyana McFadden switched back from skiing to athletics to win marathons in Boston and London in April ©Getty Images

Wheelchair racing superstar Tatyana McFadden is among the nominations for the International Paralympic Committee (IPC) athlete of the month after she won both the Boston and London Marathon titles to cap a superb month.

The latter triumph, in a race that doubled as the IPC Athletics Marathon World Championships, was achieved in a time of 1 hour 41min 14sec, more than four minutes faster than her own course record. 

The 26-year-old was one of two representatives from athletics on the five-person shortlist, along with South African Ilse Hayes, the T13 sprinter who ran 11,89 at the IPC Athletics Grand Prix in Sao Paulo to knock 0.10 seconds off the previous world record and duly become the world’s fastest female Paralympian. 

The duo are joined by British boccia player Nigel Murray, who claimed two gold medals in the BC2 category at the 2015 Boccia European Continental Cup by winning 11 out of 11 matches, as well as swimmer Sophie Pascoe.

Boccia player Nigel Murray, pictured during London 2012, is among the other IPC nominations ©Getty Images
Boccia player Nigel Murray, pictured during London 2012, is among the other IPC nominations ©Getty Images

Pascoe broke both the 100m freestyle and 100m butterfly marks in the women’s S10 last month at the Swimming New Zealand Open Championships, securing her place on the team for July’s 2015 IPC Swimming Worlds in Glasgow in the process.

Completing the list is Mexican powerlifter, Amalia Perez who, after spending most of the 2014 season recovering from a shoulder injury, returned to top form at the IPC Powerlifting Open Americas Championships in Mexico City setting a new world record of 127kg in the women’s under 61kg category.

Nominations are compiled from submissions by National Paralympic Committees and International Federations, with United States Nordic skier Andrew Soule, Dutch snowboarder Chris Vos and Ukrainian table tennis player Maksym Nikolenko the free winners so far in 2015.

Votes can be cast via the IPC website here until 12pm on Friday (8 May).



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