WATCH LIVE Chicago Marathon - OlympicTalk | NBC Sports OLYMPIC TALK | NBC SPORTSolympics Select Sport – PyeongChang Olympics – Rio Olympics – Tokyo Olympics Aerials Alpine Skiing Archery Badminton Baseball Basketball Beach Volleyball Biathlon Bobsled Bowling Boxing Breaking Canoe-Kayak Chess Cross-Country Skiing Curling Cycling Diving Equestrian esports Fencing Field hockey Figure Skating Football Golf Gymnastics Handball Hockey Judo Karate Luge Modern Pentathlon Moguls Nordic Combined Paralympics Race Walking Rowing Rugby Sailing Shooting Short Track Speedskating Skateboarding Skeleton Ski Big Air Ski Cross Ski Halfpipe Ski Jumping Ski Slopestyle Snowboard Big Air Snowboard Halfpipe Snowboard Parallel Giant Slalom Snowboard Slopestyle Snowboardcross Soccer Softball Speedskating Sport Climbing Squash Surfing Swimming Synchronized Swimming Table Tennis Taekwondo Tennis Track and Field Triathlon Volleyball Water Polo Weightlifting Wrestling Subscribe: WATCH LIVE Chicago Marathon By OlympicTalkOct 9, 2022, 6:39 AM EDT Getty Share this Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) 0 Comments At Sunday’s Chicago Marathon, Emily Sisson makes her return, nearly three years after Olympic Trials disappointment. Conner Mantz makes one of the most anticipated U.S. men’s debuts in 26.2-mile racing.It is not the norm, but an American will be one of the spotlight runners in both the men’s and women’s elite races at a major marathon. Peacock airs live coverage at 8 a.m. ET. Sisson, 30, starts her first mass marathon since dropping out of the Olympic Trials on Feb. 29, 2020, her legs “destroyed” on the hilly Atlanta course where she started as arguably the favorite. She ran the virtual New York City Marathon later in 2020, but that was solo (and not in New York City). Her 2:38:00 isn’t recorded in her official results on her World Athletics bio. Since, Sisson won the Olympic Trials 10,000m on the track and was the top American in Tokyo in 10th place. She moved back to the roads, winning national titles at 15km and the half marathon and breaking the American record in the latter. Sisson vaulted into the elite group of U.S. female marathoners in 2019, when she clocked the second-fastest debut marathon in American history, a 2:23:08 on a windy day in London, where the early pace was slow. At the time, it was the 12th-best U.S. performance all-time. In the last two years, Keira D’Amato, 37, and Sara Hall, 39, combined to run seven faster marathons. At Chicago, a flat course that produced a world record three years ago, Sisson can answer them and perhaps get close to D’Amato’s American record 2:19:12. “I’m hoping sub-2:20,” coach Ray Treacy said, according to LetsRun.com. “With the [super] shoes and the training behind her, I would think that’s [worth] at least three minutes.” It is less likely that Sisson can challenge for the win on Sunday given the presence of Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich, the 2019 World champion and defending champion in the Windy City. The 28-year-old mom is the fifth-fastest woman in history with a personal best of 2:17:08. And Ethiopian Ruti Aga, a podium finisher in Berlin, New York City and Tokyo with a best time of 2:18:34, though she has one marathon finish since the pandemic (a seventh place). Like Sisson, Mantz has shown strong recent road racing form. The American men’s debut marathon record of 2:07:56 (Leonard Korir) is in play. If he can break that, Mantz will be among the five fastest U.S. marathoners in history. Rarely has a U.S. male distance runner as accomplished as Mantz moved up to the marathon at such a young age (25). At BYU, he won NCAA cross-country titles in 2020 and 2021 and placed fifth in the Olympic Trials 10,000m, then turned pro and won the U.S. Half Marathon Championships last December. “If everything goes as planned, I think sub-2:08 is realistic,” Mantz said in a Citius Mag video interview last month. “If everything goes perfect on the day, I think a sub-2:07, that’s a big stretch goal.” The men’s field doesn’t have the singular star power of Chepngetich, but a large group of East Africans with personal bests around 2:05. The most notable: defending champion Seifu Tura of Ethiopia and 2021 Boston Marathon winner Benson Kipruto of Kenya. OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us!Follow @nbcolympictalk More Olympics 2022 Ironman Kona World Championships results Gustav Iden wins Ironman Kona World Championship smashes course record WATCH LIVE: Ironman Kona World Championships pro men’s race 2022 Ironman Kona World Championships results By OlympicTalkOct 8, 2022, 9:10 PM EDT Share this Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) 0 Comments 2022 Ironman Kona World Championship top-10 results and notables (full, searchable pro and age group results are here) …Pro Women 1. Chelsea Sodaro (USA) — 8:33:46 (First American winner since 2002) 2. Lucy Charles-Barclay (GBR) — 8:41:37 3. Anne Haug (GER) — 8:42:22 4. Laura Philipp (GER) — 8:50:31 5. Lisa Norden (SWE) — 8:54:43 6. Fenella Langridge (GBR) — 8:56:26 7. Sarah Crowley (AUS) — 9:01:58 8. Daniela Ryf (SUI) — 9:02:26 9. Skye Moench (USA) — 9:04:31 10. Laura Siddall (GBR) — 9:07:49 16. Heather Jackson (USA) — 9:22:17 DNF. Sarah True (USA)Pro Men 1. Gustav Iden (NOR) — 7:40:24 (Course Record) 2. Sam Laidlow (FRA) — 7:42:24 3. Kristian Blummenfelt (NOR) — 7:43:23 4. Max Neumann (AUS) — 7:44:44 5. Joe Skipper (GBR) — 7:54:05 6. Sebastian Kienle (GER) — 7:55:40 7. Leon Chevalier (FRA) — 7:55:52 8. Magnus Ditley (DEN) — 7:56:38 9. Clement Mignon (FRA) — 7:56:58 10. Patrick Lange (GER) — 7:58:20 11. Cameron Wurf (AUS) — 8:00:51 13. Tim O’Donnell (USA) — 8:02:58 25. Ben Hoffman (USA) — 8:21:55 34. Lionel Sanders (CAN) — 8:32:28 OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us!Follow @nbcolympictalk More Olympics WATCH LIVE Chicago Marathon Gustav Iden wins Ironman Kona World Championship smashes course record WATCH LIVE: Ironman Kona World Championships pro men’s race Gustav Iden wins Ironman Kona World Championship smashes course record By OlympicTalkOct 8, 2022, 8:12 PM EDT Getty Share this Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window)Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window)Click to share on Flipboard (Opens in new window)Click to share on Reddit (Opens in new window)Click to email a link to a friend (Opens in new window) 0 Comments Gustav Iden won the Ironman Kona World Championship in a course record time, becoming the second consecutive Norwegian to win the men’s world title and the first to do so in Kona.Iden, 26, clocked an unofficial 7 hours, 40 minutes, 24 seconds for the 140.6-mile race (2.4-mile swim, 112-mile bike, 26.2-mile run) with temperatures in the 80s on the Big Island of Hawaii. “That was so freakin’ hard,” Iden said. “The last 10K, I was worried about the legend of the island killing me. … The island really, really tried to put me down, but I think my heart must be stronger than the legend of the island. That was so, so epic.” He crushed the course record of 7:51:13 set by German Jan Frodeno the last time Kona held the event in 2019. The race was canceled in 2020 due to the pandemic. The 2021 edition was postponed to this past May and moved to St. George, Utah, where another Norwegian, Kristian Blummenfelt, prevailed. The men’s course record has been lowered at the last four editions of Kona dating to 2017. Going into the 2017 race, the course record was 8:03:56. IRONMAN KONA: Results Iden also broke the course record for the marathon run, covering the roads in 2:36:15 and becoming the first person in race history to average sub-six-minute-mile pace. The previous run record was 2:39:45, set by German Patrick Lange in 2016. Iden needed a strong run. He trailed Frenchman Sam Laidlow by 6 minutes, 15 seconds, after the bike. Laidlow, 23, broke the bike course record by covering the 112 miles in 4:04:36. Iden passed Laidlow in the 22nd mile of the run. Laidlow held for second place, two minutes behind Iden. Blummenfelt, the Tokyo Olympic champion, was third. The top four men all went faster than the 140.6-mile course record. Iden, the two-time reigning Half Ironman world champion, became the first man to win in his Kona debut since Belgian Luc Van Lierde in 1996. Van Lierde was the first European man or woman to win Kona (which began in 1978). Iden is the ninth consecutive European man to win the Ironman world title. Iden, eighth in the Tokyo Olympic triathlon, became the youngest man to win Kona since 1982. “I’m not sure if I’m coming back here,” Iden said. “This was too hard.” OlympicTalk is on Apple News. Favorite us!Follow @nbcolympictalk A new overall course best ✅ A new run course best ✅ 2022 IRONMAN World Championship ✅ Gustav Iden, you are simply amazing #IMWC2022 @VinFastUS pic.twitter.com/a0dMiRycmG — IRONMAN Triathlon (@IRONMANtri) October 9, 2022 More Olympics WATCH LIVE Chicago Marathon 2022 Ironman Kona World Championships results WATCH LIVE: Ironman Kona World Championships pro men’s race Powered by WordPress VIP