Ethiopia's Hawi Feysa retained her Bank of America Chicago Marathon title on Sunday, October 11, winning in a personal best of 2:13:33 that took 84 seconds off the mark she set in Chicago last year.

She broke away from Kenya's Sharon Lokedi with about 2:10 on the clock, putting 34 seconds into her rival over the closing mile to win in 2:13:33 against 2:14:07. Both athletes moved up the world all-time lists at the World Athletics Platinum Label road race, with Feysa rising to fourth all-time.

The historic significance came from the podium as a whole: Lokedi followed in 2:14:07, moving to eighth on the world all-time list, while former world record-holder Brigid Kosgei was third in 2:14:55.

According to World Athletics, it was the first marathon in history in which three women finished inside 2:15.

Fast Women notes Kosgei's 2:14:55 made her the fastest third-place finisher of all time, and that she is voluntarily taking part in an enhanced anti-doping program with at least 25 no-notice tests a year.

The women went out hard from the start. A lead group reached 5km in 15:36, equivalent to 2:11:39 marathon pace, and Feysa and Kosgei passed 10km in 31:04, nine seconds clear of the chase group.

By 20km, however, Lokedi and Loice Chemnung had reeled the leaders back in, and four women went through halfway together in 1:06:06. RunBlogRun reports Feysa said through an interpreter that at around 35km she knew she was going to win.

Emma Grace Hurley delivered the standout American performance, finishing seventh in 2:20:47 — the fastest marathon debut by an American woman, per Runner's World.

Fast Women reports the time moved her to sixth on the U.S. all-time list, was the fastest by a U.S. woman in more than two years, and earned her $15,000 as the top American. Isobel Batt-Doyle set an Australian record of 2:20:38 in sixth, according to Fast Women.

Switzerland's Catherine Debrunner won the women's wheelchair race in a world record of 1:33:16, a full minute faster than her previous mark set at the 2023 Berlin Marathon.

RunBlogRun reports she finished 8 minutes 45 seconds ahead of runner-up Tatyana McFadden and earned $40,000 in prize money plus a $50,000 course-record bonus. In the men's wheelchair race, Marcel Hug took his seventh Chicago title in 1:21:34, 63 seconds under his own course record.

The result reshuffles the global marathon hierarchy. Feysa's coach Gemedu Dedefo now trains athletes holding the second, third and fourth spots on the women's world all-time list, Fast Women notes, behind only Ruth Chepngetich, who is serving a doping ban.

On the men's side, Amos Kipruto's 2:01:09 win moved him to equal fifth all-time alongside Eliud Kipchoge, with Tadese Bikila second in 2:02:56 and Milkesa Mengesha third in 2:03:46, per World Athletics — a depth of performance that signals faster races ahead.