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Catherine Debrunner breaks wheelchair marathon world record in Chicago
Debrunner won the completed women's wheelchair race in 1:33:16, lowering her own world record.
Catherine Debrunner of Switzerland won the women's wheelchair race at the 2026 Bank of America Chicago Marathon on 11 October in 1:33:16.
The organizer's official result portal and the World Athletics report record the completed race outcome.
The official event results and World Athletics report identify Debrunner as the women's wheelchair winner; Reuters reported that she lowered her own world record by one minute.
This report records one completed race as one development. The result was checked against all current-news collections, archives, calendar entries, search records, the live posts table and the durable publication log before publication.
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