The 2016

Chicago Marathon The Chicago Marathon is a marathon (long-distance foot race) held every October in Chicago, Illinois. It is one of the six World Marathon Majors. Thus, it is also a World Athletics Label Road Race. The Chicago Marathon is the fourth-largest r ...

was the 39th edition of the

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race in

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, United States and was held October 9. Over 37,000 runners took part in the marathon.

Florence Kiplagat Florence Jebet Kiplagat (born 27 February, 1987) is a Kenyan professional long-distance runner. She is a two-time world champion, having won at the 2009 IAAF World Cross Country Championships and the 2010 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships ...

of Kenya defended her women's title with a winning time of 2:21:32 hours, while her countryman

Abel Kirui Abel Kirui (born 6 April 1982) is a long-distance runner from Kenya who competes in marathons. He had back-to-back wins in the World Championship marathon in 2009 and 2011. Kirui won in 2009 with a time of 2:06:54, then defended his title with ...

took the men's race in 2:11:23 hours.Reilly, Stephen (2017-10-09)
Kiplagat and Kirui prevail in Chicago
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Serena Burla Serena Burla (born September 27, 1982) is an American track and field athlete from St. Louis, specializing in long-distance running events. In college, Burla was a two-time Big 12 Conference runner-up for the Missouri Tigers. Burla competed in ...

in seventh in the women's division and Diego Estrada in eighth in the men's. The women's wheelchair marathon was won for a sixth consecutive time by American Tatyana McFadden in 1:42:28 hours, one second clear of

Manuela Schär Manuela Schär (born 5 December 1984) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing mainly in category T54 sprint events. She has used a wheelchair since the age of 8, when a playground accident paralysed her from the waist down. Car ...

Marcel Hug Marcel Eric Hug (born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympian athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in four Summer Paralympic Games for Switzerland, winning two ...

defeated the defending champion

Kurt Fearnley Kurt Harry Fearnley, (born 23 March 1981) is an Australian wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and 'crawled' the Kokoda Track. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development ...

in the men's race with 1:32:57 hours and also a one-second margin of victory.

Results

Men

Women

Wheelchair men

Wheelchair women

References

;Results
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