Amy Cragg has dropped from Chicago Marathon

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Amy Cragg announced today that she won’t be running the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on October 7th. Cragg told race organizers that she was withdrawing due to a setback in her race buildup. The runner won the Chicago marathon in 2014 and is a world championship medallist over the marathon distance. 

Cragg is the second American women to drop from the elite field. Last week, Jordan Hasay announced that she wouldn’t be competing in the marathon either. Hasay pulled out due to an ongoing stress fracture in her heel bone. Hasay was also scheduled to run the Copenhagen Half-Marathon two weeks ago, and pulled out at the last minute.

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Hasay ran her personal best last year in Chicago, finishing in 2:20:57, which is the second-fastest American women’s all-time. She was expected to try to contest Deena Kastor’s American record (2:19:36).

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The biggest draws in the men’s marathon will be American Galen Rupp, who proved his mettle as a 2:06 marathoner in Prague earlier this year, and the U.K.’s Sir Mo Farah, who broke the British marathon record at the London Marathon in April with his third-place time of 2:06:21.

Chicago will also see Kenyans Abel Kirui, Geoffrey Kirui, and Brigid Kosgei, and Birhane Dibaba of Ethiopia contest the title.