If Grant Fisher’s recent results weren’t enough proof of Park City’s growing stature as a distance running hub, Conner Mantz’s American record time at the Chicago Marathon on Sunday morning should do the trick. Mantz, a Logan-native and BYU alum, often trains in town, and shattered the decades-old record, finishing in 2:04.43 unofficially.

Jacob Kiplimo of Uganda won the marathon with an unofficial time of 2:02.23. The world record was set at 2:00.35 at the 2023 Chicago Marathon by Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum, who passed away in a traffic accident in early 2024. The previous American record was 2:05.56, set by Khalid Khannouchi at the London Marathon in 2002.

Mantz built up the confidence to attack the record earlier this year, when he ran a 2:05.08 at the Boston Marathon. Boston isn’t a record

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