{"id":8238,"date":"2014-04-13T08:51:47","date_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/?p=8238"},"modified":"2014-04-13T08:54:45","modified_gmt":"2014-04-13T12:54:45","slug":"kenyas-wilson-kipsang-wins-london-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/8238","title":{"rendered":"Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang wins London Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The current marathon world record holder, Wilson Kipsang, added another medal to his collection on Sunday after winning the men’s London Marathon<\/a> in record time of 2:04:29 – about 11 seconds better than the previous record.<\/p>\n

The 32-year old, who won the same title two years ago, recently told the press <\/a>that he thought completing a long-distance marathon in under two hours is possible, but, perhaps not in his time.<\/p>\n

Another Kenyan, Stanley Biwott, claimed the second spot after finishing about 26 seconds behind Kipsang.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia’s Tsegaye Kebede, Ayele Abshero and Tsegaye Mekonnen placed 3rd, 4th and 5th respectively.<\/p>\n

While Kenya’s Geofrey Mutai placed 6th, followed by his compatriot and former London Marathon record holder, Emmanuel Mutai in 7th position.<\/p>\n

Mo Farah finished his much anticipated long distance marathon debut in 8th place, with a time of 2:08:19.<\/p>\n

The Somali-born athlete expressed his disappointment to the media <\/a>saying ” I gave it a go, but that’s all I could do. I’m disappointed I couldn’t give the crowd what they deserved.”<\/p>\n

However, the Olympic Games, World Championships and European Championships track-race gold medal holder has revealed that he will give long distance marathon another try.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Ethiopia’s Feyisa Lilesa finished in 9th position, while American Ryan Vail trailed behind the pack in 10th place.<\/p>\n

In the women’s race<\/a>, Kenya’s Edna Kiplagat (02:20:21) outpaced her fellow compatriot Florence Kiplagat to claim her first London Marathon title after finishing as runner-up for the past two years.<\/p>\n

Florence Kiplagat and Ethiopia’s Tirunesh Dibaba came in 2nd and 3rd place respectively.<\/p>\n

Photo\/Reuters: Kipsang crosses the finish line.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The current marathon world record holder, Wilson Kipsang, added another medal to his collection on Sunday after winning the men’s London Marathon in record time of 2:04:29 – about 11 seconds better than the previous record. The 32-year old, who…<\/span> Read more ›<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[44,46,1],"tags":[2510,2517,2513,2515,2518,2512,2505,2507,2514,2516,2508,2519,2509,2511,2506],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.zegabi.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}