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2022 Chicago Marathon
The 2022 Chicago Marathon was the 44th edition of the annual marathon race in Chicago, held on Sunday, . An Elite Platinum Label marathon, it was the third of four World Marathon Majors events to be held over the span of six weeks. More than 40,000 runners were expected to take part in the event. Competitors Seifu Tura of Ethiopia, the winner of the previous year's race, is expected to return to defend his title. His compatriot Herpasa Negasa, who ran a marathon with a time of 2:03:40 in Dubai in 2019, is expected to join him. Also expected to make an appearance are Kenyan runners Bernard Koech and Elisha Rotich. Kenyan runner Ruth Chepng'etich, the defending champion, is the favorite to win the women's race. Also scheduled to join the field are Ethiopian runners Ruti Aga and Haven Hailu Desse, and Kenyan runners Celestine Chepchirchir and Vivian Kiplagat. U.S. wheelchair athlete Tatyana McFadden, who has previously won the Chicago Marathon nine times, is also ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
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Seifu Tura
Seifu Tura Abdiwak (born ) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. He won the 2021 Chicago Marathon and placed second at the 2022 Chicago Marathon. Career Seifu Tura originally specialized in middle-distance running, having won the 3000 m event of the 2015 Janusz Kusociński Memorial in Szczecin, Poland, with a time of 7:56.22. In 2017, he debuted over the marathon distance at the JoongAng Seoul Marathon, taking second place with a time of 2:09:26. After achieving a time of 2:04:44 at the 2018 Dubai Marathon, Tura won the 2018 Milano Marathon with a time of 2:09:04, despite having an issue with cramps. It was the runner's third attempt at the distance, six months after the first. Later that year, Tura also won the Shanghai Marathon, with a time of 2:09:18, a split second ahead of compatriot Tsegaye Mekonnen. This also marked the first time both winners of the Shanghai Marathon were from Ethiopia, as Yebrgual Melese had also won the race, setting a course record in the process. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2020s In Chicago
S, or s, is the nineteenth letter in the Latin alphabet, used in the modern English alphabet, the alphabets of other western European languages and others worldwide. Its name in English is ''ess'' (pronounced ), plural ''esses''. History Origin Northwest Semitic šîn represented a voiceless postalveolar fricative (as in 'ip'). It originated most likely as a pictogram of a tooth () and represented the phoneme via the acrophonic principle. Ancient Greek did not have a phoneme, so the derived Greek letter sigma () came to represent the voiceless alveolar sibilant . While the letter shape Σ continues Phoenician ''šîn'', its name ''sigma'' is taken from the letter ''samekh'', while the shape and position of ''samekh'' but name of ''šîn'' is continued in the '' xi''. Within Greek, the name of ''sigma'' was influenced by its association with the Greek word (earlier ) "to hiss". The original name of the letter "sigma" may have been ''san'', but due to the complica ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tatyana McFadden
Tatyana McFadden (russian: Татьяна Макфадден; born April 21, 1989) is an American Paralympic athlete of Russian descent competing in the category T54. McFadden has won twenty Paralympic medals in multiple Summer Paralympic Games. Biography McFadden was born in Leningrad, then Soviet Union, on 21 April 1989. She was born with spina bifida, a congenital disorder that paralyzed her from the waist down. After her birth mother abandoned her in an orphanage that was too poor to afford a wheelchair for her, she walked on her hands for the first six years of her life. The doctors told her she was so sick that she had very little time to live. While in the orphanage, she met Deborah McFadden, who was visiting Russia as a commissioner of disabilities for the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Deborah and her partner Bridget O'Shaughnessy adopted Tatyana and took her to live in Baltimore. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruti Aga
Ruti Aga (born 16 January 1994) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. She won the women's race at the 2019 Tokyo Marathon and secured five other top three finishes at the World Marathon Majors. In 2012, Aga won the silver medal in the women's 5000 metres at the 2012 World Junior Championships in Athletics held in Barcelona, Spain. In 2013, she finished in fifth place in the junior women's race at the 2013 IAAF World Cross Country Championships staged in Bydgoszcz, Poland. The same year, she won the gold medal in the women's 5000 metres at the 2013 African Junior Athletics Championships in Bambous, Mauritius. Aga competed in the women's marathon event at the 2019 World Athletics Championships. Personal bests * 5000 metres – 15:13.48 (Shanghai 2013) * 10,000 metres – 33:38.39 (Addis Ababa 2013) ;Road * 5 kilometres – 15:46 (Rennes 2014) * 10 kilometres – 31:35 (Tilburg 2012) * Half marathon – 1:06:39 ( Houston, TX 2018) * Marathon – 2:18:34 (Berlin Berlin ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ruth Chepng'etich
Ruth Chepng'etich, often spelt Ruth Chepngetich, (born 8 August 1994) is a Kenyan road racing athlete, who competes in the marathon and other long distance events. She was the 2019 Marathon World champion in hot and humid conditions. Chepng'etich twice won the Chicago Marathon, in 2021 and 2022. Her personal best in the marathon sits second on the world all-time list. She holds the third-fastest mark of all time for the half marathon. She is related to Rosefline Chepngetich. Career In 2018, Ruth Chepng'etich won the women's only road race at the 40th Istanbul Marathon ( World Athletics Label Road Race). She ran 2:18:35 (31:59 – 10 km, 48:15 – 15 km, 1:08:22 – Half marathon, 1:37:42 – 30 km), a race record, best performance ever on Turkish soil, and the seventh best time in history, becoming the 10th athlete of all time to go below 2:19 and 30th under 2:20. 2019 At the 20th Dubai Marathon, Chepng'etich celebrated victory in a course record-breaking time ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisha Rotich
Elisha Rotich is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specializes in the marathon. Rotich has a personal best in the marathon of 2:04:21, which he set when he won and set the course record at the Paris Marathon in 2021. Rotich also won the 2016 Cannes Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes, the 2017 Chuncheon Chosunilbo Marathon, and the 2018 Eindhoven Marathon. Career Early career 2010 - 2015 Rotich began his career racing mainly road races from 10k to marathon. Rotich's marathon debut was at the 2011 Kassel Marathon, where he placed 3rd in 2:15:18. In 2014 Rotich won the Strasbourg Half Marathon and the Altötting Half Marathon in Germany. In 2015 he secured his first marathon victory at the San Sebastián Marathon in Spain clocking 2:13:56. 2016 - 2018 In 2016 Rotich placed 3rd in the Kraków Marathon, before winning the Cannes Marathon des Alpes-Maritimes in 2:10:45. In 2017 Elisha won the Gunsan Marathon and the Chuncheon Chosunilbo Marathon, both in South Korea, and clocking ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Kiprop Koech
Bernard Kiprop Koech (born 31 January 1988) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who specialises in road running events. He has a personal best of 2:04:53 hours for the marathon and 59:10 minutes for the half marathon. He represented Kenya at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics. Career Koech began to make an impact on the Kenyan national cross country running circuit in his late teens. He was fourth at the Tuskys Wareng Cross Country in November 2009, then achieved a win at one of the Athletics Kenya meets at the start of 2010, beating Olympic champion Asbel Kiprop and steeplechase world record holder Saif Saaeed Shaheen. He failed to build on this at the Kenyan Cross Country Championships, finishing outside of the top fifty.Bernard Koech Tilastopaja. Retrieved on 2013-10-23. After missing the 2011 season he re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dubai Marathon
The Dubai Marathon is an annual road-based marathon hosted by Dubai, United Arab Emirates, since 1998. The marathon is categorized as a Gold Label Road Race by World Athletics. History Initial era The inaugural Dubai Marathon was held on . The marathon started outside the Al Wasl Club, and ended inside the Al Wasl Stadium. About 150 runners participated, with 48 of them finishing the race. The Association of Road Racing Statisticians (ARRS) has no record of a marathon occurring in Dubai in 1999. Current era The 2000 edition of the marathon was held on ; the event has usually been held on a Friday in January since. In 2006, the marathon was postponed from to due to the sudden death of Sheikh Maktoum, Emir of Dubai, on . The postponement meant that temperatures were higher than usual during the race, approaching . Winner was originally only meant to pace the first , but broke away from the pack once race organizers gave approval. In April 2007, it was announ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herpasa Negasa
Herpasa Negasa Kitesa (born 11 September 1993) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner who competes in marathon races. His personal best of 2:03:40 hours ranks him among the fastest of all time in the event. Herpasa made his professional debut in 2013 with outings at three marathons. His fastest time was 2:10:51 hours, from his 16th-place finish at the Dubai Marathon. He placed third at the Madrid Marathon in April, but dropped to ninth at the Košice Peace Marathon in October.Herpasa Negasa . Retrieved 2020-02-09. After skipping 2014, he returned with a new best of 2:10:18 at the 2015 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2022 New York City Marathon
The 2022 New York City Marathon, the 51st running of that city's premier long-distance race, was held on November 6, 2022. The race followed its traditional route, which passes through all five boroughs of New York City. It was the warmest New York City Marathon on record, with peak temperatures of . The elite races were won by Evans Chebet and Sharon Lokedi, both of Kenya, in 2:08:41 and 2:23:23 respectively. The wheelchair competitions were won by Marcel Hug of Switzerland and Susannah Scaroni of the United States, in course record times of 1:25:26 and 1:42:43 respectively. Background After the 2021 event was limited to 33,000 competitors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2022 edition was expected to have up to 50,000 competitors. All competitors were required to wear face coverings in the race start area. The 2022 New York City Marathon was sponsored by Indian company Tata Consultancy Services. The prize money for the winners of the elite men and women's event was $100,0 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
