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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 ...
As the New York marathon began to grow exponentially in the 1970s, the Chicago Marathon was established as a rival to the New York City Marathon. [4] By the mid-1980s, the Chicago Marathon was ensconced as one of the big four marathons. [20] During the mid-1980s, it was named America's Marathon/Chicago and opened up the way for appearance payments.
U.S. runner Jake Caswell, who won the non-binary division of the 2022 New York City Marathon, also claimed victory in the Chicago Marathon, winning with a time of 2:38:05. [53] [57] It was the second time the Chicago Marathon was held with a non-binary division; Blank Bruno had won the division the previous year with a time of 2:47:12. [66] [67 ...
Ruth Chepngetich smashed the world record by nearly two minutes at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, winning in 2:09:56.
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.
The 2022 Chicago Marathon was the 44th edition of the annual marathon race in Chicago, held on Sunday, October 9, 2022. [1] An Elite Platinum Label marathon, it was the third of four World Marathon Majors events to be held over the span of six weeks. [2] [3] [a] More than 40,000 runners were expected to take part in the event. [4]
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).
The Chicago Marathon made significant changes to its registration process beginning with the 2014 race. Previously, registration had been handled on a first come, first served basis. Starting in 2014, runners could either enter a random lottery or gain guaranteed entry by running a qualifying time, raising money for a charity, traveling with an ...