Chicago Marathon 2026: Amos Kipruto wins in 2:01:09 and Catherine Debrunner sets a world record

Amos Kipruto had finished third in Chicago in 2024 and second in 2025. On Sunday he won it in 2:01:09, the second-fastest time ever run on U.S. soil, after breaking away from defending champion Jacob Kiplimo past mile 21.

Hawi Feysa defended her women's title in 2:13:33. In the wheelchair race, Catherine Debrunner took 60 seconds off her own world record. The official results are live.

Results

Times from the organizer's race-day release. Kiplimo finished fourth in 2:04:18.

Kipruto and Kiplimo, then just Kipruto

A pack of six went through halfway in 1:00:21, on pace for Kelvin Kiptum's course record of 2:00:35, and was down to four by 25K. Kipruto and Kiplimo traded the lead from there until Kipruto's move after mile 21, and he won by nearly two minutes.

Feysa outlasts Lokedi

Feysa and Kosgei went with the pacers. Lokedi sat back and caught them by 20K, and all three were on 2:12 pace through the half, according to the organizer. By 30K it was Feysa and Lokedi, and Feysa left with a mile to go. All three podium times rank among the five fastest women's performances in Chicago history, the release said, and it called Feysa the fourth-fastest woman ever.

Americans

Emma Grace Hurley ran 2:20:47 for seventh in her marathon debut, an American debut record, which NBC Sports said broke Fiona O'Keeffe's 2:22:10. Dakotah Popehn ran a personal best of 2:24:00.

Clayton Young was the top American man in seventh, 2:05:23, which makes him the second-fastest American ever behind Conner Mantz's 2:04:43 record. He raced with a hamstring injury. Charles Hicks (2:05:35) and Vincent Mauri (2:06:45) followed; Mauri was on American-record pace until about mile 21, when he cramped and stopped to stretch. Galen Rupp, now 40, ran 2:06:55, which the organizer says beats the American masters record by more than three minutes.

Wheelchair records

Debrunner won in 1:33:16, a world record and the first wheelchair world record ever set in Chicago, per the release. Marcel Hug won his seventh Chicago title in 1:21:34, a course record that the Chicago Sun-Times reported beat his own 1:22:37 from 2023.

The organizer counted more than 54,000 participants across the weekend; a finisher count wasn't out by Monday.

New York is three weeks away, on November 1.