{"id":45970,"date":"2026-09-20T13:59:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:59:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=45970"},"modified":"2026-09-20T13:59:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T11:59:39","slug":"kenyas-ngetich-breaks-women-only-half-marathon-world-record-by-a-second","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyas-ngetich-breaks-women-only-half-marathon-world-record-by-a-second\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Ngetich breaks women-only half marathon world record by a second"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s Agnes Ngetich took a second off the women-only half-marathon \u200bworld record when she won the \u200cWorld Athletics Road Running Championships in Copenhagen on Sunday, stopping the clock at one \u200bhour, five minutes and 15 \u200bseconds.<\/p>\n<p>Ngetich, who also broke the women-only 10 \u2060km world record last year, \u200bpushed to the front from the outset \u200bon a sunny morning in the Danish capital and led till the end, finishing 50 \u200bseconds before compatriot Veronica Loleo, who \u200bcame in second.<\/p>\n<p>The previous record was set by \u200cPeres \u2060Jepchirchir, another Kenyan, when she won the World Half Marathon title in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The overall women&#8217;s half-marathon world record is held \u200bby Ethiopia&#8217;s \u200bLetesenbet \u2060Gidey, who clocked 1:02:52 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s win was the \u200blatest major title this year \u200bfor \u2060the 25-year-old Ngetich, who also won the team half marathon in Copenhagen \u2060and \u200bthe World Cross Country \u200bChampionships in January.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[],"class_list":["post-45970","news","type-news","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Sunday's win was the \u200blatest major title this year \u200bfor \u2060the 25-year-old Ngetich.","published_date":"","news_description":"Sunday's win was the \u200blatest major title this year \u200bfor \u2060the 25-year-old Ngetich.","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45970","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":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45970\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45971,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/45970\/revisions\/45971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=45970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}