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Sunday, October 7, 2007

Digg - Patrick ivuti wins 2007 Chicago Marathon in a photo fionish!!!

Patrick ivuti wins 2007 Chicago Marathon in a photo fionish!!!

Patrick Ivuti has been announced as the winner. Both men have been credited with a time of 2:11:11. This was one of the closest races in marathon history! Daniel Njenga finishes third in 2:12:45. Robert K. Cheruiyot finishes 4th in 2:16:13.

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Sunday, October 7, 2007

Ivuti wins balmy Chicago Marathon | Breaking news | Guardian Unlimited Sport

Ivuti wins balmy Chicago Marathon CHICAGO, Oct 7 (Reuters) - Kenyan Patrick Ivuti won the Chicago Marathon on Sunday after a tight two-man race to the finish with Jaouad Gharib of Morocco in unseasonably warm weather. Ivuti and Gharib were neck-and-neck crossing the finish line in a time of two hours, 11 minutes, 11 seconds, with the winner called several minutes later as the temperature climbed towards 27 degrees Celsius. "The weather was not good. It was too hot," Ivuti, 29 said. Kenyan Daniel Njenga finished third in 2:12:45, and defending champion Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya, who in last year's race suffered a head injury after slipping at the finish line, was fourth in 2:16:13. Ethiopian Berhane Adere, the women's defending champion, sprinted past marathon newcomer Adriana Pirtea of Romania to clinch the women's race in 2:33:49. Pirtea, whose time was 2:33:52, held the lead for the last four miles before Adere's final burst. American Kate O'Neill placed third in 2:36:15. About 45,000 athletes ran on a flat urban route through Chicago's residential neighborhoods and the downtown business district. Cheruiyot, a three-times Boston Marathon winner, leads the chase for the men's $500,000 prize in the 2006-07 World Marathon Majors. The rolling two-year series finishes with the New York Marathon in November. (Reporting by Susan Kelly)

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Sunday, October 7, 2007

Chicago Marathon '07: Berhane Adere comes from behind to earn second consecutive championship! | The Final Sprint (TFS) | The Internet's Premier Running, Fitness, and Nutrition Publication

Berhane Adere has done it again; winning her second consecutive LaSalle Bank Chicago Marathon title in dramatic fashion.

In uncharacteristically warm conditions, the women's marathon field came down to the defending champion and a debut marathoner. Berhane Adere, from Ethiopia came into the race looking to repeat last years win and make up for her sub par, 10th place performance in London this year.

After early leaders Kathy Butler, from Great Britian, and Nuta Olaru, from Romania, fell off the pace, Alevtina Ivanova, from Russia took over the lead. Ivanova stayed at the front through 20 kilometers before Adere took over the lead by the half way mark.

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