Oct. 12 (UPI) -- Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo and Hawi Feysa of Ethiopia won Sunday's 47th annual Bank of America Chicago Marathon, besting more than 50,000 athletes in the 26.2-mile run of the Windy City.

Kiplimo won the men's competition with a time of 2 hours, 2 minutes, 23 seconds, more than 90 seconds faster than Amos Kipruto of Kenya who finished second.

Kiplimo's time was also the fastest in the marathon's history, second only to Kelvin Kiptum's 2 hours, 35 seconds recorded in 2023, which is also the world record.

According the race organizers, Sunday was only Kiplimo's second-ever marathon.

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