Chicago Marathon 2025 Prize Money: How much winners Kiplimo, Feysa wins will earns from overall purse.
- For both men and women who won the race, each will pocket $100,000 prize money. The amount is expected to be more for one who shatters the world record.
The 2025 Chicago Marathon is the 47th edition of the annual marathon race in Chicago, USA, scheduled to be held on Sunday, 12 October 2025.
A Platinum Label marathon, it is the fifth of six World Marathon Majors events scheduled for 2024 season.
More than 50,000 runners from around 150 countries are toke part in the event.
Winning the 2025 Bank of America Chicago Marathon doesn’t just earn competitors bragging rights, but it also can be a spectacular payday, especially for those winners that set new course records.
According to the Marathon, the top-five athletes in the open divisions and the top six finishers in the wheelchair division take home prizes, as so the top-five Americans and the top finisher in the masters division.
Uganda's Jacob Kiplimo comes across the final little climb at Roosevelt Road and re-enters Grant Park. He crosses the finish line in 2:02:23 to win the 47th Chicago Marathon!
Feysa wins in 2:14:56 to slash more than two minuets off her personal best in her first U.S. marathon.
Her winning time is 1:38:14, with Switzerland's Manuela Schär and Scaroni's teammate Tatyana McFadden about 50 seconds behind.
What is the Prize Money of 2025 Chicago Marathon: How much top finishers earns, Full prizes breakdown
Overall, the top five finishers in the open division and the top ten finishers in the wheelchair division come away with prize money.
With a total of $560,000 purse in prize money for the open division ($280,000 for men and $280,000 for women), the breakdown is as follows:
5th Place: $25,000
4th Place: $30,000
3rd Place: $50,000
2nd Place: $75,000
1st Place: $100,000
The wheelchair division included a total of ten prize winners for men and women each, with a total of $150,500 in prize money ($75,250 for men and $75,250 for women). The prize money breakdown is as follows:
1st - $40,000
2nd - $30,000
3rd - $20,000
4th - $15,000
5th – $10,000
6th - $5,000
The American men’s and women’s open divisions have their own prize pools as well:
1st - $15,000
2nd - $12,000
3rd - $10,000
4th - $7,000
5th - $5,000
🏆 Chicago Marathon Prize Money: Elite Open Division (Men)
Jacob Kiplimo (UGA) — 2:02:23 — 💰 $100,000
Amos Kipruto (KEN) — 2:03:54 — 💰 $75,000
Alex Masai (KEN) — 2:04:37 — 💰 $50,000
Conner Mantz (USA) — 2:04:43 — 💰 $30,000
Mohamed Esa (ETH) — 2:04:50 — 💰 $25,000
👑 Chicago Marathon Prize Money Elite Open Division (Women)
Hawi Feysa (ETH) — 2:14:56 — 💰 $100,000
Megertu Alemu (ETH) — 2:17:18 — 💰 $75,000
Magdalena Shauri (TAN) — 2:18:03 — 💰 $50,000
Loice Chemnung (KEN) — 2:18:23 — 💰 $30,000
Mary Ngugi-Cooper (KEN) — 2:19:25 — 💰 $25,000
♿ Chicago Marathon Prize Money: Wheelchair Division (Men)
Marcel Hug (SUI) — 01:23:20 — 💰 $40,000
David Weir (GBR) — 01:27:26 — 💰 $30,000
Tomoki Suzuki (JPN) — 01:27:29 — 💰 $20,000
Aaron Pike (USA) — 01:29:07 — 💰 $15,000
Jetze Plat (NED) — 01:29:10 — 💰 $10,000
Geert Schipper (NED) — 01:29:18 — 💰 $5,000
♿ Chicago Marathon Prize Money: Wheelchair Division (Women)
Susannah Scaroni (USA) — 01:38:14 — 💰 $40,000
Manuela Schär (SUI) — 01:39:03 — 💰 $30,000
Tatyana McFadden (USA) — 01:39:04 — 💰 $20,000
Eden Rainbow-Cooper (GBR) — 01:41:59 — 💰 $15,000
Jade Hall (GBR) — 01:42:35 — 💰 $10,000
Catherine Debrunner (SUI) — 01:45:42 — 💰 $5,000
Chicago Marathon Prize Money: 🇺🇸 American Open Division — Men’s Top 5 Finishers
Conner Mantz (USA) – 2:04:43 — 💰 $15,000
Wesley Kiptoo (USA) – 2:09:02 — 💰 $12,000
Ryan Ford (USA) – 2:09:37 — 💰 $10,000
Galen Rupp (USA) – 2:09:41 — 💰 $7,000
Andrew Colley (USA) – 2:09:43 — 💰 $5,000
Chicago Marathon Prize Money: 🇺🇸 American Open Division — Women’s Top 5 Finishers
Natosha Rogers (USA) – 2:23:28 — 💰 $15,000
Dakotah Popehn (USA) – 2:24:21 — 💰 $12,000
Gabriella Rooker (USA) – 2:26:32 — 💰 $10,000
Aubrey Frentheway (USA) – 2:28:56 — 💰 $7,000
Makenna Myler (USA) – 2:29:26 — 💰 $5,000
The Chicago Marathon also offers a bonus of $50,000 to any runner who breaks the course record and a bonus of $15,000 to the first American runners to cross the finish line in each division.
What are the Chicago Marathon 2025 Bonuses, Has anyone Get it.?
Off-course there are bonuses for the Chicago Marathon 2024 Winners, Record-setters at the Chicago Marathon receive bonuses of $50,000, with Chicago becoming the first race to offer uniform record bonuses across all competitive divisions, according to race organizers.
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