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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 ; 47 years ago (1977) Last held 2023 Course records M: 2:00:35 * WR (2023 – Kelvin Kiptum) F: 2:13:44 (2023 – Sifan Hassan) Official site chicagomarathon.com The Chicago Marathon is a ...
2024 →. The 2023 Chicago Marathon was the 45th edition of the annual marathon race in Chicago, held on Sunday, October 8, 2023. [ 1][ 2] A Platinum Label marathon, it was the fifth of six World Marathon Majors events that were held in 2023. [ 3][ 4][ 5] The race also hosted the age group world championships for the year. [ 6][ 7]
Due to the elevation profile, the course has been discussed as one of the more challenging Olympic marathons. Notably, for the first time in Olympic history, the public had the opportunity to run the marathon course. Following the Olympic marathon, up to 40,000 runners will be able to participate in a public marathon or a 10k race. [4]
The Olympic records for the event are 2:06:26 hours for men, set by Tamirat Tola in 2024, and 2:22:55 hours for women, set by Sifan Hassan in 2024. The men's marathon world record has been improved several times at the Olympics: in 1908, 1920, and then at successive Olympics by Abebe Bikila in 1960 and 1964. [11]
Some of the most elite runners from around the world — and about 47,000 other committed participants — are here to run 26.2 miles Sunday as part of the Chicago Marathon. The race starts in ...
The Chicago Street Course is a 2.140 mi (3.444 km) street circuit in Grant Park in the city of Chicago, Illinois, United States. It currently hosts the NASCAR Cup Series and NASCAR Xfinity Series, with the first races run on July 1–2, 2023. The track was initially a conceptual track on iRacing made for the eNASCAR iRacing Pro Invitational ...
The 2021 Chicago Marathon was held on October 10, 2021. It was the 43rd edition of the annual Chicago Marathon, and the first after the start of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2019. The 2020 Chicago Marathon was canceled as a result of the pandemic. [1] The race was the third of five World Marathon Majors scheduled for 2021; all the events in the ...
Updated July 1, 2024 at 10:31 AM. Brian Cassella/Chicago Tribune/TNS. NASCAR is back in Chicago. For a second straight year, the city will transform the Grant Park environs into a racetrack for ...