Kenyan wins brutal Chicago Marathon
In a race run in scorching heat that left one man dead, Kenya’s Patrick Ivuti won the Chicago Marathon by a fraction of a second Sunday. At least 49 runners were taken to hospitals and another 250 were treated at the site.
The 88-degree heat and sweltering humidity were so draining that organizers shut down the second half of the course four hours after the start.
Ivuti leaned at the finish line to edge Jaouad Gharib of Morocco by 0.05 seconds. Ethiopia’s Berhane Adere rallied to successfully defend her women’s title.
Chad Schieber of Midland, Mich., 35, collapsed while running on the South Side and was pronounced dead shortly before 1 p.m. at a Veteran’s Affairs hospital, the Cook County medical examiner’s office. An autopsy was scheduled for today.
•With temperatures in the 70s with high humidity, an unidentified runner from Fairfax County, Va., died during the Army Ten-Miler race, near the finish line at the Pentagon in Arlington, Va.
•Carlos Siqueiros of San Jose, Calif., won the Portland Marathon. Siqueiros, 26, finished with a time of 2:25:27, three minutes ahead of Scott Nicholas, 34.
Mayu Horiki, 29, of Japan won the women’s race, edging Laurie Porter of Brush Prairie, Wash., by three seconds.
•Ukrainian Mykola Antonenko won the men’s race (2:13:54) and Russian Svetlana Ponomarenko (2:34:09) was the women’s champion at theTwin Cities Marathon at St. Paul, Minn.
Tennis
Henin wins Porsche GP
Top-ranked Justine Henin rallied to defeat Tatiana Golovin 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 at Stuttgart, Germany, and win the Porsche Grand Prix for her eighth title of the year.
Henin dropped her first set since losing the Wimbledon semifinal to Marion Bartoli, but stretched her winning streak to 16 matches, including a run to the U.S. Open title.
Henin now has 37 career titles. She also won the French Open and is 54-4 for the year.
•David Ferrer overpowered Richard Gasquet 6-1, 6-2 to win Tokyo’s Japan Open for his third title of the year.
The top-seeded Ferrer was in control from the outset, breaking Gasquet in the first game of a match that lasted only 52 minutes.
•Pauline Parmentier of France won her first career WTA Tour final, upsetting top-seeded Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 7-5, 6-2 in the final of the Tashkent Open at Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
•Top-seeded Tommy Robredo rallied to beat Andy Murray 0-6, 6-2, 6-3 in the final of the Moselle Open at Metz, France. It was the Spaniard’s sixth career title.
Miscellany
Panty Raid victorious
Panty Raid, a 3-year-old filly, earned an automatic bid to the Breeders’ Cup Distaff by winning the $500,000 Juddmonte Spinster Stakes in Lexington, Ky.
Panty Raid, the 3-1 second choice, won for the fourth time in her past five starts.
•Dylan Thomas beat Youmzain by a nose to give trainer Aidan O’Brien his first victory at Paris’ Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe, Europe’s most prestigious horse race.
•Chris Bosh scored 23 points and grabbed nine rebounds as the Toronto Raptors held off Virtus Lottomatica Roma squad for a 93-87 preseason basketball victory at Rome.
Andrea Bargnani added 13 points and seven rebounds to help the Raptors win in his hometown.