Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum broke the marathon world record to win the Chicago Marathon in 2 hours and 35 seconds, nearly breaking the two-hour barrier. Kiptum, listed at 23 years old, broke countryman Eliud Kipchoge’s world record of 2:01:09 set at the 2022 Berlin Marathon. “A world record was not in my mind today,” Kiptum said on NBC Chicago. Recent advances in shoe technology coincided with the men’s and women’s marathon world records being broken multiple times in the last four years. “I just love the pain.”Emily Sisson was the top American woman in seventh in 2:22:09, a year after lowering the American record to 2:18:29 in a runner-up finish in Chicago.
