{"id":267022,"date":"2026-10-12T03:55:56","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/kenya-kipruto-clinches-first-chicago-marathon-title-as-lokedi-finishes-second\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T03:55:56","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T03:55:56","slug":"kenya-kipruto-clinches-first-chicago-marathon-title-as-lokedi-finishes-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/12\/kenya-kipruto-clinches-first-chicago-marathon-title-as-lokedi-finishes-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Kipruto Clinches First Chicago Marathon Title As Lokedi Finishes Second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 Kenyan Amos Kipruto claimed his first Chicago Marathon victory after winning the men&#8217;s race in a personal best of 2:01:09 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Kipruto won the title ahead of Ethiopians Tadese Bikila who finished second in 2:02:56 and Milkesha Mengecha who finished third in 2:03:46.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">In the corresponding women&#8217;s race, Kenyans missed out of title after Lokedi settled for second in 2:14:07, compatriot Brigid Kosgei was third in 2:15:55 as Ethiopian Gejia Feysa Hawi won the title in 2:13:33.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\">-More to follow-<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.story-footer-link--><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202610120071.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenyan Amos Kipruto claimed his first Chicago Marathon victory after winning the men&#8217;s race in a personal best of 2:01:09 on Sunday. Kipruto won the title ahead of Ethiopians Tadese Bikila who finished second in 2:02:56 and Milkesha Mengecha who finished third in 2:03:46. In the corresponding women&#8217;s race, Kenyans missed out of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":267023,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[151,72,155,157,160,153,179,88,152,161,156,154,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-267022","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-current-events","12":"tag-east-africa","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-kenya","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-sport","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-trade","20":"tag-travel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267022","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}