Kirui wins men’s event, Kiplagat gets women’s at Chicago Marathon
Abel Kirui held off fellow Kenyan and defending champion Dickson Chumba to win the 39th Bank of America Chicago Marathon Sunday in 2:11:23. Three Kenyans — Kirui, Chumba and Gideon Kipketer — pulled away around mile 20 in a curiously up and down race, and a slow one, on the men’s side, perhaps because of the […]