{"id":47766,"date":"2026-10-11T10:35:06","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:35:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/?post_type=news&#038;p=47766"},"modified":"2026-10-11T10:35:06","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T08:35:06","slug":"kenyas-olympic-champion-wins-first-marathon-in-three-years-in-melbourne","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/kenyas-olympic-champion-wins-first-marathon-in-three-years-in-melbourne\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s olympic champion wins first marathon in three years in Melbourne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s twice Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge won the Melbourne Marathon in a course record of 2 hours, 9 minutes \u200cand 10 seconds on Sunday, claiming his 17th win over the distance at age 41.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Kipchoge is attempting to run a marathon on all seven continents over two years, having launched his continental \u2060campaign at the Cape Town Marathon in May.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sunday&#8217;s win was his first in three years, after he won Berlin in 2023 for a record 11th title at the majors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I believe that my body is still peaking, still able to compete with the next generation,&#8221; Kipchoge told reporters after the race.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The oldest athlete is \u200cstill \u2060competing but I am happy to run with the Gen Zs. I increased the pace after 30 km, to see whether I can run well and beat the race \u2060record. My plan went well.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Australian Thomas Do Canto finished second behind Kipchoge at 2:10:35, while compatriot Reece Edwards was \u2060third at 2:14:33.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand&#8217;s Camille French won the women&#8217;s race in 2:28:25, followed by Australian Sinead \u2060Diver at 2:28:49 and Nichola Sheridan of Ireland at 2:29:13.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;Reuters&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":47767,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-47766","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Kenya's twice Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge won the Melbourne Marathon","published_date":"2026-10-11 08:50:25","news_description":"Kenya's twice Olympic champion Eliud Kipchoge won the Melbourne Marathon","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47766","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\/47766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47768,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/47766\/revisions\/47768"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=47766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}