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Galen Rupp became the first American since 2002 to win the Chicago Marathon on Sunday, holding off defending champion Abel Kirui of Kenya for his first major victory at the distance.
Rupp, this year's Boston Marathon runner-up and the 2016 Olympic marathon bronze medallist, won in a personal best of 2 hrs 9 mins 20 secs to defeat Kirui by 28 seconds with Kenya's Bernard Kipyego third in 2:10:23.
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