{"id":5691,"date":"2018-09-17T05:18:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T02:18:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=5691"},"modified":"2018-09-17T05:18:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T02:18:34","slug":"kipchoge-sets-new-marathon-world-record-in-berlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2018\/09\/17\/kipchoge-sets-new-marathon-world-record-in-berlin\/","title":{"rendered":"Kipchoge sets new marathon world record in Berlin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"sp-story-body__introduction\">Kenya&#8217;s Eliud Kipchoge smashed the marathon world record by clocking a time of two hours one minute 39 seconds in Berlin.<\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old took nearly one minute 20 seconds off the previous best, which was set by compatriot Dennis Kimetto when he ran 2:02:57 in Berlin in 2014.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I lack words to describe this day,&#8221; said Kipchoge. &#8220;I am really grateful, happy to smash the world record.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The women&#8217;s race was won by Gladys Cherono of Kenya in 2:18:11.<\/p>\n<p>Kipchoge won the London Marathon for a third time earlier this year and is the Olympic champion over the distance.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was hard,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I ran my own race, I trusted my trainers, my programme and my coach. That&#8217;s what pushed me in the last kilometres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In 2017,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/39828177\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kipchoge missed out<\/a>\u00a0on becoming the first athlete to run under two hours for the marathon by 26 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The Kenyan clocked 2:00:25 but because pacemakers who could swap in and out of the run were used, the time was not recognised as a world record.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>BBC Sport<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s Eliud Kipchoge smashed the marathon world record by clocking a time of two hours one minute 39 seconds in Berlin. The 33-year-old took nearly one minute 20 seconds off the previous best, which was set by compatriot Dennis Kimetto when he ran 2:02:57 in Berlin in 2014. &#8220;I lack words to describe this day,&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":27983,"featured_media":5692,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/27983"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5691"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5693,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5691\/revisions\/5693"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5692"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}