The 2009 Chicago Marathon or "2009 Bank of America Chicago Marathon" is history now, and Sammy Wanjiru from Kenya beat other elite runners and basically 45,000 people to win it. Sammy Wanjiru is amazing. The 2008 Olympic Gold Medal winner from Kenya won the London Marathon in April and now Chicago and won both in record time.
His Chicago Marathon time was a blistering 2 hours, 5 minutes and 41 seconds. That's a U.S Marathon record and a hair close to his London time of 2:05:10. Awesome. Hopefully he can be attracted to run the Oakland Marathon next year. That would be a great start for the new race.
If you want to track how all of the runners did, go here: Chicago Marathon
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