Last year’s Chicago Marathon champion Benson Kipruto is set to return to the start line this Sunday in a race that has the potential to break records.
Country of Origin: Kenya
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Kipruto won last year’s Chicago Marathon and hit a new personal best of 2:04:24, using his signature tactic of a last-minute energy surge to create distance between opponents to reach the finish line first.
His finishing time also marked the fourth fastest in Chicago Marathon history.
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Kipruto has three other career victories under his belt. In 2021, he won both the Boston Marathon and the Prague Marathon. He also won the 2018 Toronto Marathon.
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He has also run other Abbott World Marathon Majors – that is, the Tokyo Marathon, Boston Marathon, TCS London Marathon, BMW BERLIN-MARATHON, Bank of America Chicago Marathon and TCS New York City Marathon. Kipruto placed seventh in London’s 2020 race, 10th in Boston’s 2019 race and third in Boston’s 2023 race.
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