Emily Sisson Runs Fastest Marathon by American Woman, Beats Record by 43 Seconds: 'Still Sinking In'
Photo: Matt Marton/AP/Shutterstock Emily Sisson is on top of the world, and the record books. The 30-year-old runner became the fastest American woman ever to run a marathon on Sunday, after finishing the Chicago Marathon with a time of 2:18:29. After the race, Sisson, D’Amato, and two other women who have held the record — Joan Benoit Samuelson and Deena Kastor — posed for a photograph that was shared on the Chicago Marathon’sTwitteraccount....