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2017 Chicago Marathon
The 2017 Chicago Marathon was the 40th annual edition of the Chicago Marathon held in Chicago, Illinois, United States, and was held on October 8. The race had 44,508 finishers, and the number of spectators was estimated at over 1.5 million.Paralympian Tatyana McFadden wins seventh straight Chicago Marathon in record time ''Baltimore Sun'' (October 8, 2017). Retrieved on October 8, 2017. Summary American won the men's race, holding off defending champion |
Galen Rupp
Galen Rupp (born May 8, 1986) is an Americans, American Long-distance track event, long-distance runner. He competed in the Summer Olympics in 2008 Summer Olympics, 2008 in Beijing, 2012 Summer Olympics, 2012 in London, 2016 Summer Olympics, 2016 in Rio de Janeiro and 2020 Summer Olympics, 2021 in Tokyo. He won the silver medal in the men's 10,000 metres, 10,000-meter run in London and the bronze medal in the men's marathon in Rio de Janeiro. Rupp competed for the University of Oregon and trained under Alberto Salazar as a member of the Nike Oregon Project. He won the 2017 Chicago Marathon, becoming the first American to do so since Khalid Khannouchi in 2002. Rupp won marathon at the United States Olympic Trials in Atlanta on February 29, 2020, with a time of 2:09:20, and qualified for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games, where he took eighth place. Rupp currently holds multiple List of North American records in athletics, U.S. records at the high school, collegiate and senior levels. T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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. She was the world record holder for the women's half marathon with a time of 1:05:09 hours until it was broken by Peres Jepchirchir on 10 February 2017 at the RAK Half Marathon. She has also represented Kenya on the track, having won the silver medal over 5000 m at the 2006 World Junior Championships in Athletics. She competed in the 10,000 m at the 2009 World Championships in Athletics and was the Kenyan record holder in the event with her best of 30:11.53 minutes until it was broken by Vivian Cheruiyot on 12 August 2016 at the Rio Olympic Games. Kiplagat is currently part of the NN Running Team, an international team of elite long-distance runners managed by Global Sports Communication. Career Kiplagat studied at the Sirgoech Seconda ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Madaí Pérez
Madaí Pérez Carrillo (born 2 February 1980 in Tlaxcala) is a Mexican long-distance runner. She represented Mexico in the marathon at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics and 2016 Summer Olympics. Career Her first full marathon race was the 2003 Chicago Marathon, where she finished twelfth in 2:31:34. She finished fifth over 10,000 metres at the 2003 Pan American Games. She won the Bolder Boulder 10K race in 2004, and also won the Guadalajara Half Marathon that year, in the first of three consecutive wins. In 2005, she finished eleventh in the marathon at the World Championships in a personal best time of 2:26:50, and sixth at the 2005 IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. In 2006, she finished fourth at the Chicago Marathon in a new Mexican record time of 2:22:59. In the 2007 Boston Marathon she came in third (2:30:16). At the 2007 Athletics World Championships in Osaka, Japan she finished in 15th position, thus being the best female Latin American participant (2:35:17 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Shelley (athlete)
Michael Shelley (born 10 October 1983) is an Australian long-distance runner who competes in track events and road races. He has won gold medals in the marathon event at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, Scotland, as well as the 2018 Commonwealth Games at Gold Coast, Australia. He has also represented Australia at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships and the IAAF World Half Marathon Championships. On the road, he has won at the Gold Coast Half Marathon and the City2Surf race in Sydney. Career Born in Southport, Queensland, Shelley made his first international appearance at the 2002 World Junior Championships in Athletics. He had set a career best of 9:08.28 for the 3000 metres steeplechase earlier that year but did not manage to progress beyond the heats at the competition. He soon changed his focus to the 1500 metres instead and set a personal best of 3:39.90 before going on to take third at the 2003 Australian Athletics Championships. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Derrick
Chris Derrick (born October 17, 1990) is an American distance runner who won 3 consecutive US Cross Country Championships in 2013–15. He attended Stanford University, where he earned 14 All-American honors and holds an American junior record in the 5000 meters. High school As a member of the high school class of 2008, Derrick has traded victories with former American high school record holder in the two-mile, German Fernandez. As a high school senior at Neuqua Valley High School in Naperville, Illinois, Derrick gained recognition when he won the 2007 Illinois state cross country championship and set the course record on the altered Detweiller Park course in 13:52, behind the 13:50.6 that Craig Virgin (the only American to ever win at the IAAF World Cross Country Championships) ran on the original course. Derrick concluded his senior cross country season by capturing both a team and individual victory at the Nike Cross Nationals competition, followed a week later by a second ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zersenay Tadese
Zersenay Tadese ( Tigrinya: ዘርእሰናይ ታደሰ; born 8 February 1982) is an Eritrean long-distance track and road running athlete. He held the men's half marathon world record from 2010 to 2018. His bronze medal in the 10,000 metres at the 2004 Athens Olympics made him the first ever Eritrean Olympic medallist, and his 20-km title at the 2006 IAAF World Road Running Championships also made him the country's first athlete to win at a world championship event. He does not use a sprint finish to win races; his strategy relies on a combination of efficient running and fast pace setting. Zersenay ("Tadese" is his father's name) has found most of his success in the half marathon, with four consecutive victories in the World Half Marathon Championships from 2006 to 2009 (with a 2006 20 km edition), a silver medal in 2010 and a fifth title in 2012. His 5 titles are a record. He set a world record at the Lisbon Half Marathon in 2010. He has also excelled in cross ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ezekiel Kiptoo Chebii
Ezekiel Kiptoo Chebii (born 3 January 1991) is a Kenyan long-distance runner who competes in half marathon and marathon races. He has personal bests of 59:05 minutes and 2:09:15 hours, respectively. His half marathon best ranks him among the top twenty all-time for the distance. He has won the Madrid Marathon and the Lille Half Marathon, both in course record times. Career He first began competing in Europe in 2009, while still a teenager. He placed fifth at the Utrecht Singelloop that year. He was fourth at the Paderborn 10K in 2010, dipping under 28 minutes for the distance for the first time and ranking in the global top 40. Chebii stepped up to the half marathon distance in 2011 and set a best of 61:40 minutes at the Nice Half Marathon. He also placed in the top eight at the Portugal Half Marathon and Giro di Castelbuono. He established himself among the world's top road runners in 2012. He ran the half marathon in under an hour for the first time at the Berlin Half Mara ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stephen Sambu
Stephen Sambu (born July 7, 1988, in Kenya) is a Kenyan long distance runner who specialises in road running competitions. College career Stephen Sambu ran for the University of Arizona, where he was coached by James Li, who is also Bernard Lagat's long-term coach. For the Arizona Wildcats he was runner-up in the 10,000 meters at the 2012 NCAA Division I Outdoor Track and Field Championships, runner-up at the 2012 NCAA Men's Division I Cross Country Championship, and a 9-time All-American. At Rend Lake College in Ina, Illinois, he captured 10 individual national championships, including two National Junior College Athletic Association (NJCAA) national cross country titles. 2013 season He won the 2013 B.A.A. 10K. 2014 season Sambu won the 2014 editions of the Falmouth Road Race, Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run, B.A.A. 10K, and UAE Healthy Kidney 10K. 2015 season He won the 2015 editions of the Great Manchester Run, Falmouth Road Race, Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run. 2016 season Sam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sisay Lemma
Sisay Lemma Kasaye (born 12 December 1990) is an Ethiopian long-distance runner. Career Sisay Lemma began his running career at the age of 17 and initially competed barefoot due to a lack of running shoes. In 2012, he won the Maratona d’Italia. In 2013, he was fifth in the Tiberias Marathon, won the Orlen Warsaw Marathon and finished fourth at the Eindhoven Marathon. In 2015, he was fifth at the Dubai Marathon in January in 2:07:06, won the Vienna City Marathon in April in 2:07:31 and the Frankfurt Marathon in October where he ran a personal best of 2:06:26. In 2016 he improved his best to 2:05:16 at the Dubai Marathon where he finished fourth. In 2017 he was third at the Dubai Marathon in January and fourth at the Chicago Marathon in October but did not finish the Boston Marathon in April. In 2018 he began the season with fifth-place finish at the Dubai Marathon on 26 January with a personal best 2:04:08. In October, he broke the Ljubljana Marathon The Ljublj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kurt Fearnley
Kurt Harry Fearnley, (born 23 March 1981) is an Australian Wheelchair racing, wheelchair racer, who has won gold medals at the Paralympic Games and 'crawled' the Kokoda Track. He has a Birth defect, congenital disorder called Caudal regression syndrome, sacral agenesis which prevented fetal development of certain parts of his lower spine and all of his sacrum. In Paralympic events he is classified in the T54 (classification), T54 classification. He focuses on long and middle-distance wheelchair races, and has also won medals in sprint relays. He participated in the Athletics at the 2000 Summer Paralympics, 2000, Athletics at the 2004 Summer Paralympics, 2004, Athletics at the 2008 Summer Paralympics, 2008, Athletics at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, 2012 and Athletics at the 2016 Summer Paralympics, 2016 Summer Paralympic Games, finishing his Paralympic Games career with thirteen medals (three gold, seven silver and three bronze). He won a gold and silver medal at the 2018 Common ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amanda McGrory
Amanda McGrory (born June 9, 1986) is an American wheelchair athlete. Biography McGrory graduated from Unionville High School in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. She attended the University of Illinois, graduating in 2010 with a bachelor's degree in psychology and in 2018 with a masters in information science. While an undergraduate she competed both in basketball and in track and field. McGrory earned four medals during the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, China: gold in the 5000 meters, silver in the marathon, and bronze in both the 800 meters and the 4×100 meter relay. She won both the 2009 London and 2006 New York Marathon wheelchair races. She has also competed in the World Championships for Track and Field (2006, 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017) and Marathon (2015), winning 10 medals over the years (3 gold, 3 silver, 4 bronze). McGrory was diagnosed with transverse myelitis when she was five years old, after an allergy shot inflamed her spinal cord. Such an occur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
