diff --git a/tests/integration/test_dbapi_integration.py b/tests/integration/test_dbapi_integration.py
index 201921d2..3663726a 100644
--- a/tests/integration/test_dbapi_integration.py
+++ b/tests/integration/test_dbapi_integration.py
@@ -785,6 +785,11 @@ def test_select_cursor_iteration(trino_connection):
     assert sorted(rows0) == sorted(rows1)
 
 
+def test_execute_chaining(trino_connection):
+    cur = trino_connection.cursor()
+    assert cur.execute('SELECT 1').fetchone()[0] == 1
+
+
 def test_select_query_no_result(trino_connection):
     cur = trino_connection.cursor()
     cur.execute("SELECT * FROM system.runtime.nodes WHERE false")
diff --git a/trino/dbapi.py b/trino/dbapi.py
index ac8d2893..dfd1ab3b 100644
--- a/trino/dbapi.py
+++ b/trino/dbapi.py
@@ -445,7 +445,7 @@ def execute(self, operation, params=None):
                 self._query = self._execute_prepared_statement(
                     statement_name, params
                 )
-                result = self._query.execute()
+                self._iterator = iter(self._query.execute())
             finally:
                 # Send deallocate statement
                 # At this point the query can be deallocated since it has already
@@ -456,9 +456,8 @@ def execute(self, operation, params=None):
         else:
             self._query = trino.client.TrinoQuery(self._request, sql=operation,
                                                   legacy_primitive_types=self._legacy_primitive_types)
-            result = self._query.execute()
-        self._iterator = iter(result)
-        return result
+            self._iterator = iter(self._query.execute())
+        return self
 
     def executemany(self, operation, seq_of_params):
         """
@@ -485,6 +484,7 @@ def executemany(self, operation, seq_of_params):
             self.execute(operation, seq_of_params[-1])
         else:
             self.execute(operation)
+        return self
 
     def fetchone(self) -> Optional[List[Any]]:
         """