Chicago Marathon 2025 Recap (Jacob Kiplimo, Hawi Feysa + Conner Mantz Crush) + Athlos NYC Thoughts + Femke Bol Moves To The 800m

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🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 120 minutes

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Summary

What. A. Day. Uganda’s Jacob Kiplimo and Ethiopia’s Hawi Feysa unleashed two of the fastest marathons in history in Sunday’s Chicago Marathon. Kiplimo’s 2:02:23 makes him the seventh-fastest man ever and he did it in only his second career marathon. Feysa’s 2:14:56 announced her arrival as one of the five fastest women of all time with a perfectly paced negative split.

Behind the fireworks, storylines kept coming: Kenya’s Amos Kipruto and Alex Masai rounded out the podium, while Conner Mantz lit up home soil fans with a North American record of 2:04:43. On the women’s side, Megertu Alemu and Magdalena Shauri joined Feysa in a flurry of personal bests. It was a good day to run fast.

For more reactions and parting thoughts from Chicago, you can read our recap here. You can also catch the replay of our watchalong here.

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Hosts: Chris Chavez | ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@chris_j_chavez on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ + Preet Majithia | ⁠⁠@preet_athletics on Instagram⁠⁠

Produced by: Jasmine Fehr |⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠@jasminefehr on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠

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Transcript

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0:34.2	All right, it is October 13th. I'm Chris Chavez.
0:40.3	I'm Prit Maghia.
0:42.2	And on today's episode, we're unpacking the 2025 Chicago Marathon, where Jacob
0:48.6	Couplimo made Chicago his playground, essentially running his second career marathon and clocking a
0:57.9	202, 23, the second fastest time in Chicago marathon history, decimating an elite field that
1:06.9	was pretty strong, and I think like the marquee matchup fizzled out after 20 miles.
1:14.0	We'll talk about that.
1:15.6	Then, of course, Connor Mance took down a 23-year-old American record with his 204.43.
1:23.5	On the women's side, we had Howie Fesa breaking 215 for the first time in her career
1:29.0	and recording her first ever World Marathon Major victory.
1:34.5	It sounds like there was more than 54,000 runners in Sunday's race,
1:39.3	so the running boom is alive and well.
1:42.6	So the 2025 Chicago Marathon absolutely delivered.
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