The 2016

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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.

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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 a ...

took the men's race in 2:11:23 hours.Reilly, Stephen (2017-10-09)
Kiplagat and Kirui prevail in Chicago
IAAF. Retrieved on 2017-10-08. The top finishing Americans were

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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

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Marcel Hug Marcel Eric Hug (; born 16 January 1986) is a Paralympic Games, Paralympic Track and field, athlete from Switzerland competing in category T54 (classification), T54 wheelchair racing events. Hug, nicknamed 'The Silver Bullet', has competed in fo ...

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 without a wheelchair. He has a congenital disorder called sacral agenesis which prevent ...

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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{{World Marathon Majors 2016

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