{"id":31838,"date":"2026-04-14T14:30:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=31838"},"modified":"2026-04-14T14:31:44","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T12:31:44","slug":"31838","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/31838\/","title":{"rendered":"Jepchirchir to miss London Marathon due to injury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World champion Peres Jepchirchir has withdrawn from this month&#8217;s \u200bLondon Marathon because a stress \u200cfracture delayed the start of her training, race organisers said this Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Tokyo Olympic gold medallist \u200bJepchirchir won the London Marathon \u2060in 2024 and last year&#8217;s \u200bWorld Championship title.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was only \u200bable to resume training in late January,&#8221; the 32-year-old Kenyan said in \u200ba statement.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that to \u200bbe competitive at the London Marathon you \u200chave \u2060to be at your top level and despite my best efforts, I\u2019m just short \u200bof that \u200bdue \u2060to my lack of training.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-31838","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Tokyo Olympic gold medallist \u200bJepchirchir won the London Marathon \u2060in 2024 and last year's \u200bWorld Championship title.","published_date":"","news_description":"Tokyo Olympic gold medallist \u200bJepchirchir won the London Marathon \u2060in 2024 and last year's \u200bWorld Championship title.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31838","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\/31838\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31840,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/31838\/revisions\/31840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=31838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}