Wheelchair marathoner Tatyana McFadden of Clarksville won the ESPY Award for the Best Female Athlete with a Disability on Thursday night.

McFadden was nominated for the honor six times. Last year the paralympic swimmer Becca Meyers of Timonium won the ESPY.

McFadden has won three straight wheelchair marathon grand slams and is in halfway to her fourth, with wins in Boston and London this year. Chicago and New York came later this fall. McFadden became the first athlete to claim all four titles in one calendar year in 2013.

She also finished the top 10 in three International Paralymic Committee Nordic Skiing World Championships events last yea. 1, 5 and 10 kilometer races, despite picking up the sport only in 2012.

In September, she will seek a haul of seven gold medals in 10 days at the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. She will be the first athlete to sweep every distance, from the 100 meters to the marathon, at the Paralympic Games.

Tatyana McFadden won women's wheelchair race at Boston Marathon for consecutive 4 years.

Born with spina bifida, which left her paralyzed below the waist, McFadden spent the first six years of life in a Russian orphanage before being adopted by Deborah McFadden and raised in Maryland.

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By Prakriti Neogi