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Kitwara and Kiplagat Aim to Go One Better Than Last Year in Chicago - IAAFPublished by
Kitwara and Kiplagat Aim to Go One Better Than Last Year in ChicagoPublished by IAAF on October 9, 2015 The Bank of America Chicago Marathon organisers will have a different type of competition in store for the IAAF Gold Label Road Race on Sunday (11). Pace makers have been taken out but instead there are three men with personal bests faster than 2:05 and three women who have run faster than 2:23. Sammy Kitwara enters his fourth Chicago Marathon with slight progression over the past three years. Kitwara was fourth in 2012, finished third in 2013 and was the 2014 runner-up behind Eliud Kipchoge. His personal best of 2:04:28 was set last year in Chicago and tops the rest of the elite men’s field. Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Kebede, the 2012 winner, was initially announced as one of the headliners for the field but later withdrew due to illness. Kenyan Dickson Chumba, who finished third in last year’s race, returns alongside 2012 Boston Marathon champion Wesley Korir. Read the full article at: www.iaaf.org
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