{"id":31549,"date":"2026-04-11T15:26:50","date_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:26:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31549"},"modified":"2026-04-11T15:27:47","modified_gmt":"2026-04-11T13:27:47","slug":"sas-steyn-wins-seventh-consecutive-two-oceans-marathon","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-steyn-wins-seventh-consecutive-two-oceans-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s Steyn wins seventh consecutive Two Oceans Marathon \u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s (SA) ultra-marathon specialist Gerda Steyn has secured her seventh Two Oceans Marathon in a row.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is after crossing the finish line first on the University of Cape Town playing fields after 56 gruelling kilometres in the 2026 edition of the race.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Steyn finished ahead of Kenya\u2019s Margaret Jepchumba.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SA runners dominated the marathon in both women\u2019s and men\u2019s races.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>SA\u2019s Arthur Jantjies has won the men\u2019s race, beating fellow South African Onalenna Khonkhobe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;SABC&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":31552,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-31549","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Gerda Steyn has secured her seventh Two Oceans Marathon in a row","published_date":"","news_description":"Gerda Steyn has secured her seventh Two Oceans Marathon in a row","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31549","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31549\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31554,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31549\/revisions\/31554"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31549"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31549"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}