{"id":4894,"date":"2013-10-15T10:38:57","date_gmt":"2013-10-15T14:38:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=4894"},"modified":"2013-10-15T12:55:00","modified_gmt":"2013-10-15T16:55:00","slug":"kenyans-kimmeto-and-jeptoo-win-the-chicago-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4894","title":{"rendered":"Kimmeto and Jeptoo win the Chicago marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kimmetto-winning-the-race.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4895 alignleft\" alt=\"Kimmeto crosses the finish line at the Chicago marathon\" src=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kimmetto-winning-the-race-300x224.jpg\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kimmetto-winning-the-race-300x224.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kimmetto-winning-the-race-220x164.jpg 220w, http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Kimmetto-winning-the-race.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Two Kenyans Dennis Kimeto and Rita Jeptoo won the men\u2019s and women\u2019s races in the Chicago Marathon competition on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Kimmeto shattered the record after he completed the 42-kilometer race in just 2:3:45 &#8211; 53 seconds faster than Ethiopia\u2019s Tsegaye Kebede\u2019s record last year. This is his second win this year after he won the Tokyo Marathon in February.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyans dominated the men\u2019s race taking the top three spots. Emmanuel Mutai finished second after running the course in 2:03:52 and Sammy Kitwara finished third in 2:05:16. Four runners, Kimetto, Mutai, Kitwara and Kogo had pulled away from the rest at the 19th mile mark, but the later two couldn\u2019t keep up.<\/p>\n<p>Jeptoo, finished the 26.2 mile women\u2019s road race in 2:19:57 with a wide grin and waving to the crowd. There was a significant distance between her, another Kenyan, Jemima Sumgong Jelegat, who came second with 2:20:48, and Russia\u2019s Maria Konovalova who placed third.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on her win, Jeptoo who also won the Boston Marathon in April said &#8220;Last year and this year, I&#8217;m really doing well. When I ran Boston again, I saw my dream is coming. This is my happiness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>All winners will receive $100,000 but Kimmeto will get an additional $75,000 for setting a new record. Jeptoo will also receive an extra $40,000 for running the race in under 2:20:00.<\/p>\n<p>The Chicago marathon is the first major marathon through a major city in the U.S. since the Boston Marathon bombings. A record 40,230 athletes turned up for Sunday\u2019s Marathon leading the competition to be categorized as a \u201clevel two\u201d event.<\/p>\n<p>There were more than a thousand security officers and federal agents from Home land Security at the event using high-tech surveillance and monitoring equipment as well as bomb-sniffing dogs to ensure the safety of runners and spectators.<\/p>\n<p>A 30-second moment of silence was held at the beginning of the event in honour of the victims of the Boston tragedy. The executive race director, Carey Pinkowski, described the Marathon as a celebration of humanity saying that he \u201cthought everything went really, really smooth.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Kenyans Dennis Kimeto and Rita Jeptoo won the men\u2019s and women\u2019s races in the Chicago Marathon competition on Sunday. Kimmeto shattered the record after he completed the 42-kilometer race in just 2:3:45 &#8211; 53 seconds faster than Ethiopia\u2019s Tsegaye<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/4894\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4993],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4894"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4894\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}