• The Chicago Marathon is a marathon race held every October in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the six World Marathon Majors. Thus, it is also a World Athletics...
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  • The 1988 Chicago Marathon was the 11th running of the annual marathon race in Chicago, United States and was held on October 30. The elite men's race...
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    The Chicago Marathon, one of the six World Marathon Majors, has been contested by men and women annually since 1977. Since 1983, it has been held annually...
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    men's world record time of 2:00:35 on October 8, 2023, at the 2023 Chicago Marathon. Ethiopian athlete Tigst Assefa broke the women's world record for...
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    Kelvin Kiptum (category Kenyan male marathon runners)
    second-fastest marathon in history at 2:01:25, 16 seconds outside the world record, at the 2023 London Marathon (WMM). At the 2023 Chicago Marathon six months...
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    Lawrence Cherono (category Chicago Marathon male winners)
    2:03:04 clocking at the 2020 Valencia Marathon. Cherono is a past winner of both the Boston and Chicago marathons. In 2024, Cherono received a seven year...
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    The marathon (from Greek Μαραθώνιος) is a long-distance foot race with a distance of 42.195 km (26 mi 385 yd), usually run as a road race, but the distance...
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    Rosa Mota (category Chicago Marathon female winners)
    Olympic Marathon in the Los Angeles Olympic Games. Her personal best time was 2:23:29 in the 1985 Chicago Marathon. Mota won the Chicago Marathon twice...
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    Eliud Kipchoge (category Chicago Marathon male winners)
    world record holder in the marathon from 2018 to 2023, until that record was broken by Kelvin Kiptum at the 2023 Chicago Marathon. Kipchoge has run four of...
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  • Lisa Martin (runner) (category Australian female marathon runners)
    runner. In the marathon, she won the 1988 Olympic silver medal and two Commonwealth Games gold medals. Other marathon victories included the 1988 Osaka International...
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    Paula Radcliffe (category Chicago Marathon female winners)
    winner of the London Marathon (2002, 2003, 2005), three-time New York Marathon champion (2004, 2007, 2008), the 2002 Chicago Marathon winner and the 2005...
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  • The 1989 Chicago Marathon was the 12th running of the annual marathon race in Chicago, United States and was held on October 29. The elite men's race was...
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    Ingrid Kristiansen (category Chicago Marathon female winners)
    Angeles Olympics, she finished fourth in the first women's Olympic marathon. At the 1988 Seoul Olympics, she dropped out of the 10,000 metres final while...
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    Evans Chebet (category Kenyan male marathon runners)
    November 1988) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in road races. In 2022, he became the third man this century to win both the Boston Marathon and...
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  • The 1986 Chicago Marathon was the tenth running of the annual marathon race in Chicago, United States, and was held on October 26. The elite men's race...
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    Constantina Diță (category Chicago Marathon female winners)
    Championships – the first Romanian to win that honour. She was the 2004 Chicago Marathon winner. As a child, Diță became interested in athletics and particularly...
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    Steve Jones (runner) (category Chicago Marathon male winners)
    athlete who set the world record in the marathon in his first completed race at that distance at the Chicago Marathon in 1984, with a time of 2:08:05. Jones...
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  • completed an organized marathon. For elite athletes and others known primarily for running marathons, see List of marathoners or Category:Long-distance...
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  • Toshihiko Seko (category Chicago Marathon male winners)
    notable marathon wins include Fukuoka Marathon (1978–1980, 1983), Boston Marathon (1981, 1987), London Marathon (1986) and Chicago Marathon (1986). On...
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    Joan Benoit (category Chicago Marathon female winners)
    for an American woman at the Chicago Marathon for 32 years after winning the race in 1985. Her time at the Boston Marathon was the fastest time by an American...
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    Marathon Oil Corporation is an American petroleum company that has existed since 1887. Marathon was founded in Lima, Ohio as the Ohio Oil Company. In...
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    the Chicago Marathon with a time of 2:13:44. This is a new course record for the Chicago Marathon as well as the second-fastest women's marathon of all...
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    Robert de Castella (category Australian male marathon runners)
    AO, MBE (born 27 February 1957) is an Australian former world champion marathon runner. De Castella is widely known as "Deek" or "Deeks" to the Australian...
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  • managed by DMSE Sports since 1988. Amateur and professional runners from all over the world compete in the Boston Marathon each year, braving the hilly...
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    Galen Rupp (category Chicago Marathon male winners)
    Project. He won the 2017 Chicago Marathon, becoming the first American to do so since Khalid Khannouchi in 2002. Rupp won the marathon at the 2020 U.S. Olympic...
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  • marathon runner, four-time winner of the Boston Marathon Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot (born 1988), Kenyan marathon runner, winner of the Boston Marathon 2010...
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    registrants, and was the second-largest marathon in the United States that year, behind the Chicago Marathon. The race began in 1973. During its formative...
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  • The Berlin Marathon (German: Berlin-Marathon, pronounced [bɛʁˈliːn ˈmaʁatɔn]) is a marathon event held annually on the streets of Berlin, Germany on the...
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    Bashir Abdi (category Belgian male marathon runners)
    North Run half marathon, finishing fifth in a time of 1:01:11, the race was won by Farah. In October, Abdi ran in the Chicago Marathon, placing fifth...
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  • following tables are an overview of all current national records in the marathon, as compiled by World Athletics and other authoritative sources of road...
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