Chicago Marathon 2019 Results: Kenya's Brigid Kosgei Sets World Record

History was made at the 2019 Chicago Marathon.

Kenya's Brigid Kosgei set a new women's world record with her finishing time of 2:14:04. 

While Kosgei obliterated the women's field, Kenya's Lawrence Cherono (2:05:45) needed a strong final push to outpace Ethiopia's Dejene Debela by one second, Ethiopia's Asefa Mengstu by three seconds and Kenya's Bedan Karoki by eight seconds for the win.

Four-time Olympic gold medalist Mo Farah (2:09:58) finished a disappointing eighth in the race, while Jacob Riley (2:10:36) was the top United States men's finisher, coming in ninth.

For Cherono, it was all about his strong finish.

"All of a sudden when we reached 41 kilometers, the [other runners] were not going again," he said, per Shannon Ryan, Phil Thompson and Jessica Villagomez of the Chicago Tribune. "I decided to kick and felt I was still having enough energy to sprint. I tried my luck and it worked."

But Kosgei was undoubtedly the story on the day, beating the next closest woman, Ethiopia's Ababel Yeshaneh (2:20:51), by nearly seven minutes. Ethiopia's Gelete Burka (2:20:55), the United States' Emma Bates (2:25:27) and Ireland's Fionnuala McCormack (2:26:47) rounded out the top five.

"I'm feeling good and I am happy because I was not expected to run like this," she said during a television interview, per the Chicago Tribune.

And Kosgei didn't just set the world record; she smashed Paula Radcliffe's 16-year-old record (2:15:25) by over a minute.

"I think we've always known that time was going to come," Radcliffe said of her record being broken. "When I saw how fast Brigid was running in the first part of the race, if she was able to hold that together, she was always going to beat the time."

She annihilated it, putting her name in the record books in the process.