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Jacob Kiplimo returns to defend his title, with sights on the world record, and three American men are close enough to threaten it. The women’s field has 12 under 2:20, led by Brigid Kosgei and defending champion Hawi Feysa, with Sharon Lokedi running her first flat marathon. We’ve got full profiles on the whole field.
Elsewhere, the 2027 Chicago lottery is now open through October 29, and the race will host the U.S. Marathon Championships that year too.
And as always, we round things out with the practical stuff: whether you can actually train for a marathon on a treadmill, our free agegrade calculator, and what counts as a good 10K time.
Jessy Carveth
Senior News Editor, Marathon Handbook
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A field capped at 20 men and 20 women will contest the U.S. titles on Oct. 10, 2027, and the two winners earn the top qualifying standard for the 2028 Olympic Marathon Trials.
Brigid Kosgei and defending champion Hawi Feysa lead a field with 12 women under 2:20, Sharon Lokedi runs her first flat marathon, and Emma Grace Hurley, the American 8K record holder, makes her marathon debut.
The 2024 Olympian goes back to the course where his marathon career took off, chasing Conner Mantz's 2:04:43 American record with a torn hamstring tendon to manage.
The 25-year-old ran 2:04:35 at Boston in only his second marathon, and Chicago is his first since he became eligible to represent the United States in July. Here is who he is, what he has won, and what he wants from Sunday.
The 25-year-old from Ohio ran the fastest marathon debut by an American in April while coaching himself and working in a running store. Chicago on Oct. 11 is only his second marathon.
Vinny Mauri is logging 120-mile weeks on a treadmill ahead of Chicago. Here's what the science says about the pros, cons, and what you should do on race day surfaces.
The 49-year-old Nashville triathlete tested positive for two SARMs and synthetic testosterone at the Music City Triathlon in May, and USADA added a year to the standard ban.
The 2022 London champion has been third and then second in his two Chicago starts, and he comes back as the sixth-fastest marathoner in history after running 2:01:39 in London in April.
The two-time Tokyo Marathon champion finished second in Chicago two years ago, and her 2:15:55 personal best makes her the third-fastest woman on Sunday's start line.
The Ethiopian took more than two minutes off her best to win Chicago last year in 2:14:57. She returns on Sunday to defend the title against Brigid Kosgei, who finished ahead of her in Abu Dhabi in 2023 and in Tokyo in March.
The 2018 Boston champion stepped away from professional marathoning in April 2025. On Oct. 11 she is back on an elite start line, this time as part of her build toward a first 100-miler.
The defending champion ran 2:00:28 in London in April, and beating Sabastian Sawe's 1:59:30 on Sunday would mean finding another 59 seconds on a morning forecast to start in the low 60s.
Three men in the field have run close enough to Conner Mantz's 2:04:43 to threaten it, and one has already gone faster on a course that does not count. Emily Sisson's 2:18:29 is a bigger ask, though a debutant coming off a 1:06:23 half-marathon believes she is in 2:20 shape.
Welcome to Runs Like Hell, the show where conversations get harder as the pace gets faster. In this season, we travel to Provo, Utah, to interview some of the world's best runners. Our first guests are husband and wife Adam and Mica Wood: aspiring Olympians and prolific content creators. Today, we put their fitness (and relationship) under the microscope.
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