Kipchoge Wins Chicago Marathon

 

Kipchoge who won the 2003 world championships gold medal in 5000m pushed away from the leaders at the 40km marker to win the race in a very fast time of 2:04.11.

 

The second and third place took Kenyans Sammy Kitwara and Dickson Chimba who finished after 2:04.28 and 2;04.32 respectively.

 

One of the race favorites legendary distance runner Kenenisa Bekele in his second marathon in his career took fourth in 2:05.51.

 

Kipchoge cashed in $100,000 prize for winning today's Chicago marathon.

 

Men Top 10 Finishers

 

 

Pos	Name	Pace	Time
1	Kipchoge, Eliud (KEN)	04:45	02:04:11
2	Kitwara, Sammy (KEN)	04:45	02:04:28
3	Chumba, Dickson (KEN)	04:45	02:04:32
4	Bekele, Kenenisa (ETH)	04:48	02:05:51
5	Koech, Bernard (KEN)	04:54	02:08:30
6	Ghebreslassie, Ghirmay (ERI)	04:56	02:09:08
7	Rutto, Lani (KEN)	05:00	02:10:42
8	Korir, Wesley (KEN)	05:01	02:11:09
9	Curtis, Bobby (USA)	05:01	02:11:20
10	Kobayashi, Koji (JPN)	05:02	02:11:43