(Reuters) – Kenyan Benson Kipruto produced a dominant performance to win the Chicago Marathon men’s race on Sunday in two hours four minutes and 24 seconds.
The 2021 Boston Marathon winner joined a large leading pack from the start and had grabbed the outright lead with an 11-second margin over last year’s champion Seifu Tura Abdiwak of Ethiopia by the 40-kilometre mark.
Kipruto hardly looked fatigued as he broke the tape in sunny conditions, with Tura Abdiwak finishing second in 2:04:49 and Kenyan John Korir taking third.
(Reporting by Amy Tennery in New York, editing by Ed Osmond)
