Kelvin Kiptum of Kenya celebrates after profitable the 2023 Chicago Marathon skilled males’s division and setting a world document marathon time of two:00.35 at Grant Park on Sunday in Chicago, Illinois.

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Kelvin Kiptum of Kenya celebrates after profitable the 2023 Chicago Marathon skilled males’s division and setting a world document marathon time of two:00.35 at Grant Park on Sunday in Chicago, Illinois.

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No different runner may very well be seen within the distance when Kelvin Kiptum tore via the end line tape in Chicago. Not solely did the 23-year-old Kenyan win on Sunday, however he set a brand new world document.

Kiptum crossed the end line on the Chicago Marathon with an unofficial time of two hours and 35 seconds. If confirmed, Kiptum could have overwhelmed two-time Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge‘s document, set on the 2022 Berlin Marathon, by 34 seconds.

It would additionally make Kiptum the primary athlete on this planet to interrupt 2 hours and 1 minute in a record-eligible marathon.

“I knew I was coming for a course record, but a world record — I am so happy,” Kiptum mentioned, based on World Athletics. “A world record was not on my mind today, but I knew one day I would be a world record-holder.”

By the 5-km mark or 3.1 miles, Kiptum and Daniel Mateiko, additionally from Kenya, had damaged away from the group of runners. The two have been neck and neck till round 30 km, or 18.6 miles, when Kiptum propelled ahead and ran with urgency till Mateiko was not in sight.

Mateiko dropped out of the race shortly after, permitting fellow countryman Benson Kipruto to complete second. Belgian runner Bashir Abdi got here in third. Four Americans — Conner Mantz, Clayton Young, Galen Rupp and Sam Chelanga — additionally landed within the prime 10.

On the ladies’s facet, Olympic observe champion Sifan Hassan from the Netherlands received with 2:13:44.

Sunday’s race was Kiptum’s third marathon ever and his first within the U.S. In April, Kiptum delievered the second quickest time in marathon historical past with 2:01:25 on the London Marathon.