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The 2024 Chicago Marathon was the 46th edition of the annual Chicago Marathon, held on October 13, 2024. The race is the fifth of six World Marathon Majors held in 2024, and is a platinum label race. [1] [2] The marathon had 120,000 applications in 2024. The number of finishers was 52,150, [3] breaking the 48,398 finisher record set in 2023 ...
Historically, motion picture cameras had been used in the United States since the 1920s for recording race-meets but were unsuitable for photo-finish photography as the frame rate was too low to catch the critical instant when horses or dogs reached the finish line. This was achieved by using a special slit camera.
Chicago Marathon Logo for the Chicago Marathon Date Second Sunday in October (before Columbus Day) Location Chicago, Illinois, United States Event type Road Distance 26.219 miles (42.195 km) Established 1977 (48 years ago) (1977) Last held 2024 Course records M: 2:00:35 * WR (2023 – Kelvin Kiptum) F: 2:09:56 * WR (2024 – Ruth Chepngetich) Official site chicagomarathon.com 2025 Chicago ...
At the 2024 Chicago Marathon, Curtis Hargrove hit the pavement in red heels to remind people of domestic abuse victims.
Randy Burt ate pepperoni pizza and drank red wine for dinner on Sept. 24, 1977. The next morning, he put on his old high school gym uniform and went to the starting line of the first Chicago Marathon.
It marked her third win at the Chicago Marathon in the last four years. Chepng'etich broke the world record set by Ethiopia’s Tigist Assefa, who ran the Berlin Marathon in 2:11:53 last year.
Khalid Khannouchi is a four-time Chicago Marathon winner. The Chicago Marathon, one of the six World Marathon Majors, [1] has been contested by men and women annually since 1977. [2] Since 1983, it has been held annually in October. [2] The United States had been represented by the most Chicago Marathon winners (nine men and twelve women).
Some of the most elite runners from around the world — and about 40,000 other committed participants — are here to run 26.2 miles Sunday when the Chicago Marathon marks its 45th anniversary.