It was a record day for Americans in the 2022 Bank of America Chicago Marathon, as Emily Sisson scored a top-two finish and put down a record time in the race.
Sisson, a six-time national champion, hadn’t raced at marathon distance since the trials for the Tokyo Olympics, but that didn’t stop her from setting a new American women’s marathon record in Chicago on Sunday.
In the race, Sisson put up a blistering 1:09:26 half-marathon split and finished the race on a strong note, finishing in 2:18:29.
That time set a new American record in the distance, besting the time of 2:19:12 that Keira D’Amato put up in Houston earlier this year as she broke Deena Kastor’s long-standing record.
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Sisson ultimately finished second behind Kenya’s Ruth Chepngetich, whose world record bid fell just short as she finished in 2:14:18, 12 seconds behind Brigid Kosgei’s world record run in 2019.
In all, six American women finished in the top-11 spots in the race. Susanna Sullivan finished in 2:25:14 to take home sixth, just ahead of Sarah Vaughn and Maggie Montoya. Makena Morley finished in 10th place, besting fellow American Laura Thweatt as she finished in 11th.
It was a clean American sweep of the podium in the women’s wheelchair race, with Susannah Scaroni winning her first Chicago Marathon title in 1:45:48. The triumph marked a huge milestone for Scaroni, who was badly injured when her chair was hit by a car during a training run in Champaign last fall.
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Tatyana McFadden and Jenna Fesemyer finished in second and third, respectively, and Yen Hoang finished in fourth.
On the men’s side, Conner Mantz was the top-American on the board with a time of 2:08:16, which put him in seventh place in the race. Zachery Panning, Matt McDonald and Nicolas Montanez finished just outside of the top-10, holding down the 11th through 13th spots, respectively.
Reigning men’s wheelchair champion Daniel Romanchuk finished in second place in the race, well-behind Switzerland’s Marcel Hug as he blistered the field in 1:25:20. Aaron Pike finished in third, and Evan Correll finished in seventh to give the U.S. three top-10 finishers in this year’s race.
