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CHICAGO (Reuters) - Kenyan Patrick Ivuti won the Chicago Marathon on Sunday after a tight two-man race to the finish with Jaouad Gharib of Morocco in unseasonably warm weather.
Ivuti and Gharib were neck-and-neck crossing the finish line in a time of two hours, 11 minutes, 11 seconds, with the winner called several minutes later as the temperature climbed towards 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
"The weather was not good. It was too hot," Ivuti, 29 said.
Ivuti wins balmy Chicago Marathon
Kenyan Daniel Njenga finished third in 2:12:45, and defending champion Robert Cheruiyot of Kenya, who in last year's race suffered a head injury after slipping at the finish line, was fourth in 2:16:13.
Ethiopian Berhane Adere, the women's defending champion, sprinted past marathon newcomer Adriana Pirtea of Romania to clinch the women's race in 2:33:49. Pirtea, whose time was 2:33:52, held the lead for the last four miles before Adere's final burst. American Kate O'Neill placed third in 2:36:15.
About 45,000 athletes ran on a flat urban route through Chicago's residential neighborhoods and the downtown business district.
Cheruiyot, a three-times Boston Marathon winner, leads the chase for the men's $500,000 prize in the 2006-07 World Marathon Majors. The rolling two-year series finishes with the New York Marathon in November.
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