{"id":21981,"date":"2013-08-18T01:27:35","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T23:27:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/kiprotich-adds-world-marathon-title-to-olympic-gold\/"},"modified":"2013-08-18T01:27:35","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T23:27:35","slug":"kiprotich-adds-world-marathon-title-to-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/kiprotich-adds-world-marathon-title-to-olympic-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Kiprotich adds world marathon title to Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s Stephen Kiprotich won the marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow in 2 hours, 9 minutes and 51 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>He beat off a strong and spirited challenge from Ethiopians who took a 2-3 finish in moderate Luzhniki temperatures of 21 degrees.<\/p>\n<p>Kiprotich broke clear off the leading pack of Ethiopians Lelisa Desisa, Tola Tadese and Tsegaye Kebede plus a Japanese, Kentaro Nakamoto, with about two kilometers left.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old also won Olympic gold in London last year. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kawowo.com\/index.php\/athletics\/item\/15945-kiprotich-wins-gold-marathon.html\" target=\"_blank\">kawowo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more breaking Athletics World Championship news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/athletics-world-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Top 10:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>1. Stephen Kiprotich (Uganda) 2:09:51<br \/>\n2. Lelisa Desisa (Ethiopia) 2:10:12<br \/>\n3. Tadese Tola (Ethiopia) 2:10:23<br \/>\n4. Tsegaye Kebede (Ethiopia) 2:10:47<br \/>\n5. Kentaro Nakamoto (Japan) 2:10:50<br \/>\n6. Solonei da Silva (Brazil) 2:11:40 SB<br \/>\n7. Paulo Roberto Paula (Brazil) 2:11:40 SB<br \/>\n8. Yemane Tsegay (Ethiopia) 2:11:43 SB<br \/>\n9. Peter Kimeli Some (Kenya) 2:11:47<br \/>\n10. Jackson Kiprop (Uganda) 2:12:12<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6c607_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uganda\u2019s Stephen Kiprotich won the marathon at the World Athletics Championships in Moscow in 2 hours, 9 minutes and 51 seconds. He beat off a strong and spirited challenge from Ethiopians who took a 2-3 finish in moderate Luzhniki temperatures of 21 degrees. Kiprotich broke clear off the leading pack of Ethiopians Lelisa Desisa, Tola [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-21981","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}