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39 Runners From Highland Park, Highwood Complete 2023 Chicago Marathon

This year's finishers included 23 men and 15 women from Highland Park, as well as one Highwood resident.

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Competitors race down State Street during the 45th annual Chicago Marathon on Sunday. This year, more than three dozen runners from Highland Park completed the race.
Competitors race down State Street during the 45th annual Chicago Marathon on Sunday. This year, more than three dozen runners from Highland Park completed the race. (Trent Sprague /Chicago Tribune via AP)

HIGHLAND PARK, IL — In an edition filled with broken records, the 45th running of the Chicago Marathon on Saturday featured more than 47,000 runners, including 39 competitors from Highland Park and Highwood. Race officials said it was the most runners to ever finish the 26.2-mile race.

Kelvin Kiptum, of Kenya, was the top male runner and fastest overall finisher, clocking the first sub-2:01 marathon in an officially sanctioned competition with a world record time of 2 hours and 35 seconds.

“I knew I was coming for a course record, but a world record — I am so happy,” said Kiptum, a two-time Olympic champion and the most successful marathon runner of all time, according to the Associated Press.

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“A world record was not on my mind today," he said, "but I knew one day I would be a world record-holder.”

Sifan Hassan, of the Netherlands, set a new course record on the women's side with at time of 2:13:44.

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In addition, Marcel Hug, of Switzerland, broke his own record set in last year's wheelchair race with a time of 1:22:37. Catherine Debrunner, also of Switzerland, set a new course record for women in the wheelchair division with a time of 1:38:44.

And a North Shore resident made history this year, as Allison Naval, of Evanston, became the one millionth person to ever complete a Chicago Marathon, clocking a 4:23.13 finish in her first-ever marathon.

This year, 23 men and 15 women from Highland Park finished the marathon, as well as one man from Highwood, Fernando Rivera, according to unofficial results.

Below find the top 10 female and male runners from Highland Park and Highwood who completed the 2023 Bank of America Chicago Marathon, followed by their finishing time and place among their respective genders:

FEMALE

  1. Mallory Sonenthal, 3:49:09 — 4,876th
  2. Amy Rogin, 3:52:02 — 5,330th
  3. Rachel Jacobsohn, 3:55:25 — 5,953rd
  4. Renee Dominguez, 4:02:02 — 7,107th
  5. Emma Levine-Wolf, 4:03:44 — 7,327th
  6. Jennifer Ganahl, 4:27:09 — 10,669th
  7. Hannah Goodman, 4:33:44 — 11,629th
  8. Elise Werner, 5:21:43 — 17,387th
  9. Wendi Sloane, 5:22:48 — 17,479th
  10. Laura Ellis, 5:27:29 — 17,871st

MALE

  1. Matthew Schmanski, 2:59:08 — 2,730th
  2. Brian Landau, 3:08:08 — 4,031st
  3. Stephan Cobalt, 3:11:05 — 4,526th
  4. Jack Casey, 3:20:03 — 6,101st
  5. Chad Teven, 3:28:57 — 7,866th
  6. Sam Levin, 3:31:40 — 8,396th
  7. Jason Vanderwest, 3:38:15 — 9,517th
  8. Matthew Stinson, 3:39:25 — 9,748th
  9. Daniel Doyle, 3:53:58 — 12,572nd
  10. Brett Ekenberg, 3:57:01 — 13,255th

A complete list of local runners that completed the race is available online, with all results unofficial as of Monday morning.

Related: Records Fall At Chicago Marathon, Evanston Runner 1 Millionth Finisher

Patch staff contributed.

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