Moroccan distance runner Zouhair Talbi set a brand new course document Sunday morning within the Financial institution of America Chicago 13.1.
Talbi, who had beforehand set a course document within the 2024 Houston Marathon, introduced his record-setting exploits to Chicago this weekend, masking the 13.1-mile race in a time of 1:01:08 to set a brand new document, in response to unofficial timekeeping.
Remarkably, the time wasn’t Talbi’s quickest he’s put up on the half-marathon distance, as he ran a 1:00:41 on the New York Half-Marathon in 2024 in response to WorldAthletics.org.
He additionally received the Houston Marathon in 2024 with a time of two:06:39, setting a course document within the course of within the race. He completed in 35th place within the 2024 Olympic marathon in Paris with a time of two:11:51.
Talbi was adopted intently by Emad Bashir-Mohammed, who completed simply 10 seconds behind him. Patrick Kiprop completed in third, one second behind Bashir-Mohammed within the race.
Meseret Belete Tola captured the highest spot within the girls’s race with a time of 1:09:36 edging out Mercy Lagat by simply two seconds in response to unofficial instances.
Daniel Romanchuk completed the boys’s wheelchair race in 43:43 minutes to say the title within the 13.1-mile race, narrowly edging out Aaron Pike by only one second.
Susannah Scaroni captured the ladies’s wheelchair race crown with a time of 48:50 besting Hannah Dederick by greater than six minutes.
