{"id":19764,"date":"2013-05-13T19:37:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/murray-in-the-running-in-japan-triathlon\/"},"modified":"2013-05-13T19:37:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-13T17:37:36","slug":"murray-in-the-running-in-japan-triathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/murray-in-the-running-in-japan-triathlon\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray in the running in Japan triathlon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=3217\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3217\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3217\" alt=\"South Africa's Richard Murray at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Yokohama, Japan. Photo: Delly Carr, ITU Media\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/33830_Murray-LR.jpg\" width=\"444\" height=\"295\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Africa\u2019s Richard Murray at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Yokohama, Japan. Photo: Delly Carr, ITU Media<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s Richard Murray set the second fastest run split en route to a top five placing at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>This was a great result for Murray after battling up the field from 20th place.<\/p>\n<p>Brit Jonathan Brownlee won the race in 1 hour 44 minutes and 59 seconds. His time of 29 minutes 21 seconds for the 10km was the fastest on the day.<\/p>\n<p>Javier Gomez (1:45.23) and Joao Silva (1:46.16) rounded out the podium.<\/p>\n<p>Murray\u2019s time was 1:47.23 and 29.39 for the 10km.<\/p>\n<p>This fast run was despite twisting his ankle in training leading up to the race.<\/p>\n<p>Fellow South African Henri Schoeman (1:47.26) finished sixth. Schoeman was with the front-runners until the run.<\/p>\n<p>Murray got out of the water 50 seconds behind Brownlee and company, starting the run some two minutes behind.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had some great fun today. I felt really good during the run and managed to run one of my best times ever.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI felt pretty happy with my swim, but I still was almost a minute behind. The bike leg was really hard and missing the strong cycling bunch cost me big time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI gave everything I had on the run though and I am happy with the way it turned out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kate Roberts and Gillian Sanders rounded off a great weekend for South African triathlon by finishing seventh and 12th in the women\u2019s race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s Richard Murray at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Yokohama, Japan. Photo: Delly Carr, ITU Media South Africa\u2019s Richard Murray set the second fastest run split en route to a top five placing at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Yokohama, Japan, on Saturday. 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