Truemors
![@bsniz [Chicago Marathon - the view from our balacony!]](http://media.nowpublic.net/fscache/_vi_S21bKVwcwTs_0.jpg "@bsniz [Chicago Marathon - the view from our balacony!]")
is reporting from
Member
NP Rank:
NP Rank:
B of A Chicago Marathon 2009: Race Results, Photos & Video
Share:
by Jon Azpiri | October 11, 2009 at 07:28 am
6342 views | 1 Recommendation | 1 comment
Photos
Videos
The 2009 Bank of America Chicago Marathon took place Oct. 11. Kenyan runner Sammy Wanjiru won the Chicago Marathon 2009 in a record time of 2 hours, 5 minutes, and 41 seconds. Wanjiru's Chicago Marathon finishing time was both a course record and an American record. Wanjiru, who won the gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, earned a $100,000 bonus for beating the course and American records. Wanjiru missed the world record of 2:03:59 set last year by Ethiopia's Haile Gebrselassie.
Wanjiru beat out fellow countrymen Vincent Kipruto and Charles Munyeki, who finished second and third.
As for the women, Liliya Shobukhova of Russia won the 2009 Chicago marathon, taking 2 hours 25 minutes and 55 seconds to finish the 26.2-mile Chicago Marathon route. Irina Mikitenko took second while 2008 champ Lidiya Grigoreyva took third place.
Advertisement
NowPublic on Facebook
What is NowPublic?
NowPublic lets people work together to cover news events around the world.
Crowd Power
Related Stories
Recommendations (1)
Anonymous user
Most RecentMost Recommended Comments (1)
at 09:05 on October 11th, 2009
This was on Columbus Avenue, just before the race got to Illinois Street, pretty much in the middle of the pack.
sepreece has contributed a photo to this story.