{"id":72199,"date":"2026-04-20T12:56:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/john-korir-breaks-boston-marathon-course-record-as-kenyans-retain-titles\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T12:56:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:56:15","slug":"john-korir-breaks-boston-marathon-course-record-as-kenyans-retain-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/john-korir-breaks-boston-marathon-course-record-as-kenyans-retain-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"John Korir breaks Boston Marathon course record as Kenyans retain titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Sharon Lokedi wins women\u2019s race again<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Marcel Hug win\u2019s men\u2019s wheelchair for ninth time<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>GB\u2019s Rainbow-Cooper wins women\u2019s wheelchair race<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>There was Kenyan joy at the Boston Marathon for a second year in a row as Sharon Lokedi and John Korir retained their titles.<\/p>\n<p>Korir broke the Boston Marathon course record in the men\u2019s race, riding a tailwind to outrun the strongest field in event history in a time of 2hr 1min 52sec \u2013 the fifth-fastest marathon of all time.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/apr\/20\/john-korir-breaks-boston-marathon-course-record-as-kenyans-retain-titles\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharon Lokedi wins women\u2019s race again Marcel Hug win\u2019s men\u2019s wheelchair for ninth time GB\u2019s Rainbow-Cooper wins women\u2019s wheelchair race There was Kenyan joy at the Boston Marathon for a second year in a row as Sharon Lokedi and John Korir retained their titles. Korir broke the Boston Marathon course record in the men\u2019s race, &#8230; <a title=\"John Korir breaks Boston Marathon course record as Kenyans retain titles\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/john-korir-breaks-boston-marathon-course-record-as-kenyans-retain-titles\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about John Korir breaks Boston Marathon course record as Kenyans retain titles\">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-72199","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\/72199","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=72199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}