Emily Venters’ Wild Marathon Debut Ended At The Finish Line. At Least She Earned It.
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EUGENE, OREGON – AUGUST 03: Emily Venters and Bailey Hertenstein compete in the PrimeTime Timing Women’s 5000m final during the 2025 USATF Outdoor Championships at Hayward Field on August 03, 2025 in Eugene, Oregon. (Photo by Emilee Chinn/Getty Images) Getty Images Two days before her first marathon in Chicago, Emily Venters admitted that she was nervous. And who could blame her? The former University of Utah track and field star and Salt Lake City resident, 26, had broken 15 minutes over 5,000 meters indoors in February, clocking a time of 14:58.77—the 76th-fastest time in the world in 2025—so she still had speed in her legs. But 26.2 miles was a different animal, and by Sunday she was committed to making the leap up in distance. Venters had finished fifth at the U.S. Half Marathon Championships in March, claiming a time of 1 hour, 8 seconds and 48 seconds (98th-best globally), and she was eighth in the U.S. 10-mile Championships in April, securing a time of 52 minutes and 55 seconds (14th-best in the world). To most, the Nike athlete was one of the up-and-coming women’s distance runners at the Bank of America Chicago Marathon on Sunday. Her initial plan was to race the distance for the first time next fall, but she said she “had a change of plans” and decided Chicago was the right time and “felt ready to do it.” By race’s end, however, nearly everything went wrong and Venters may have endured the wildest race of her career. “The biggest thing I’m holding on to is the will I found within myself to keep pushing to the finish, even when quite literally everything went wrong (kind of comical now),” she wrote on Instagram on Tuesday. “Because I know the person who finishes on their absolute worst days…
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