{"id":13690,"date":"2014-04-06T06:12:41","date_gmt":"2014-04-06T06:12:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ethiopian-wins-paris-marathon\/"},"modified":"2014-04-06T06:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-04-06T06:12:37","slug":"ethiopian-wins-paris-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ethiopian-wins-paris-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Wins Paris Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Kenenisa Bekele, an Ethiopian long-distance runner and three-time Olympic champion, won the Paris Marathon on Sunday, finishing the 42.195km (26.22 miles) race in a record 2hr 5min 02secs.}} <\/p>\n

The previous record for the Paris Marathon was held by Kenya’s Stanley Wiwott, who clocked 2hr 05:10 in 2012. <\/p>\n

The race was Bekele\u2019s first marathon. “I didn’t have much experience,” Bekele said. “It was very tough but it was the time I expected.\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow Ethiopian Getachew Negari Terfa, who set a course record at Xiamen in China in 2013, came in second, while Luka Kanda of Kenya, the 2012 Rome winner, claimed the third spot on the podium. <\/p>\n

Bekele made his move with about 25km to run and opened up a lead that may have been even more significant had he not struggled with a hamstring problem. <\/p>\n

“The hamstring wasn’t good after 25km. It was cramping but it’s ok. I’ll feel it more in the morning,” explained Bekele. <\/p>\n

He missed out on the world record, which is held by Kenyan Wilson Kipsang who set a mark of 2hr 3min 23secs in 2013 at Berlin.<\/p>\n

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AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

{{Kenenisa Bekele, an Ethiopian long-distance runner and three-time Olympic champion, won the Paris Marathon on Sunday, finishing the 42.195km (26.22 miles) race in a record 2hr 5min 02secs.}} The previous record for the Paris Marathon was held by Kenya’s Stanley Wiwott, who clocked 2hr 05:10 in 2012. The race was Bekele\u2019s first marathon. “I didn’t […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2000051474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[100],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-13690","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-africa","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000051474,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13690.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13690.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/arton13690.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13690"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13690\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000051474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13690"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=13690"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=13690"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}