On the 2024 Financial institution of America Chicago Marathon’s forty sixth operating on Oct. 13, the life and accomplishments of the late marathon legend Kelvin Kiptum will likely be honoured. The younger athlete, who presently holds the marathon world report, and his coach, Gervais Hakizimana, have been tragically killed in a automotive accident on Feb. 11, devastating the operating world and Kiptum’s numerous supporters.
Marking one yr since Kiptum set a brand new marathon world report on the Chicago Marathon, the World Marathon Main will take a second of silence at the beginning line to honour his legacy. These impressed by Kiptum may even be inspired to put on memorial stickers offered on the race expo.
Kiptum rose to fame in 2022, on the age of 23, when he ran his marathon debut in a head-turning 2:01:25 to win the Valencia Marathon. 4 months later, he gained the TCS London Marathon, in 2:01:25. On the 2023 Chicago Marathon, lower than one yr after his debut, the Kenyan demolished Eliud Kipchoge‘s world report, operating 2:00:35 to develop into the primary particular person to interrupt the two:01:00 barrier. His world report nonetheless stands.
Which elites will toe the road on the 2024 Chicago Marathon?
Within the males’s discipline, we’ll see world 10,000m silver medallist Daniel Ebenyo of Kenya making his marathon debut. The 29-year-old will go head-to-head with Kenya’s 2022 London Marathon champion Amos Kipruto, who has the quickest private greatest within the discipline (2:03:13 from the 2022 Tokyo Marathon).
The lone Canadian within the males’s discipline is Phil Parrot-Migas of London, Ont.. This would be the third marathon of his profession. He holds a private greatest of two:15:53, set in Hamburg in April.
Former world champion and fourth-fastest marathoner in historical past Ruth Chepngetich will likely be headlining the ladies’s discipline. She’ll be joined by a powerful American contingent, consisting of three of the nation’s prime 5 quickest marathoners: Keira D’Amato, Sara Corridor and Betsy Saina. Saina comes into the race because the strongest American athlete, putting within the prime 5 of her final three marathons, together with a win on the 2023 Sydney Marathon. Sydney is presently a candidate to be added because the seventh AWMM, becoming a member of Tokyo, Berlin, London, Boston, Chicago and NYC.
There are not any Canadian feminine marathoners within the ladies’s elite discipline. For the total checklist of elites, verify right here.