Chelsea Clinton Runs the Chicago Marathon in 3:47:55—with Her Parents Waiting for Her at the Finish

She’s a Columbia University professor, a New York Times best-selling author, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, and a mom of three.And today, Chelsea Clinton added a third World Marathon Major to her resume—she finished the Chicago Marathon in 3:47:55, an average pace of 8:42 per mile.On a warm and muggy day, Clinton and a friend, Jen Koss, ran relatively even splits, finishing the first half of the race in 1:53:10 and the second in 1:54:45. As usual, her famous parents—former president Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton, the former Secretary of State—greeted her at the finish line.The former first daughter, 46, told Runner’s World previously that she ran a bit with her dad in junior high and high school, then started training more consistently while a student at Stanford University.But she didn’t complete her first 26.2-mile race until after she turned 40. After following a Runner’s World training plan, she ran 3:59:09 in her hometown race, New York City, in 2021. Since then, she’s run that race three more times, in 2022 (4:20:34), 2024 (3:45:51), and 2025 (3:44:22).Most recently, she and Koss ran this year’s Boston Marathon in 3:40:52.Find Your Next Running PlaylistCindy is a freelance health and fitness writer, author, and podcaster who’s contributed regularly to Runner’s World since 2013. She’s the coauthor of both Breakthrough Women’s Running: Dream Big and Train Smart and Rebound: Train Your Mind to Bounce Back Stronger from Sports Injuries, a book about the psychology of sports injury from Bloomsbury Sport. Cindy specializes in covering injury prevention and recovery, everyday athletes accomplishing extraordinary things, and the active community in her beloved Chicago, where winter forges deep bonds between those brave enough to train through it.