{"id":39377,"date":"2025-04-21T16:55:14","date_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:55:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/lokedi-wins-boston-marathon-in-record-time-as-korir-joins-brother-as-mens-champion\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:55:14","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:55:14","slug":"lokedi-wins-boston-marathon-in-record-time-as-korir-joins-brother-as-mens-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/lokedi-wins-boston-marathon-in-record-time-as-korir-joins-brother-as-mens-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"Lokedi wins Boston Marathon in record time as Korir joins brother as men\u2019s champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>Sharon Lokedi breaks women\u2019s course record<\/li>\n<li>John Korir wins 13 years after brother Wesley\u2019s victory<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sharon Lokedi broke the Boston Marathon course record, and fellow Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as a race champion on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Lokedi outran two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri over the final mile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/apr\/15\/hellen-obiri-and-sisay-lemma-surge-to-victory-at-boston-marathon\">a year after losing a sprint down Boylston Street<\/a> to the same athlete in one of the closest finishes in race history. Lokedi finished in an unofficial 2hr 17min 22sec \u2013 19 seconds ahead of Obiri and more than two minutes faster than the previous Boston best.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2025\/apr\/21\/boston-marathon-2025-winners\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Lokedi breaks women\u2019s course record John Korir wins 13 years after brother Wesley\u2019s victory Sharon Lokedi broke the Boston Marathon course record, and fellow Kenyan John Korir joined his brother as a race champion on Monday. Lokedi outran two-time defending champion Hellen Obiri over the final mile a year after losing a sprint down &#8230; <a title=\"Lokedi wins Boston Marathon in record time as Korir joins brother as men\u2019s champion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/21\/lokedi-wins-boston-marathon-in-record-time-as-korir-joins-brother-as-mens-champion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Lokedi wins Boston Marathon in record time as Korir joins brother as men\u2019s champion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39377","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39377\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}