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Marathon World Record

October 15 , 2023 405 days 615 0
  • Kenya’s Kelvin Kiptum set a world record to win Sunday’s Chicago Marathon men’s title.
  • He completed the race by an unofficial time of two hours and 35 seconds.
  • He shattered the old-world record of 2:01:09 set by Kenya’s Eliud Kipchoge to win the 2022 Berlin Marathon.
  • The old Chicago Marathon record of 2:03:45 was set by Kenyan Dennis Kimetto in 2013.
  • Dutch runner Sifan Hassan won the Chicago Marathon women’s title in an unofficial time of two hours, 13 minutes and 44 seconds.
  • This is the second-fastest women’s time in marathon history after Ethiopian Tigist Assefa.

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