{"id":118468,"date":"2026-04-20T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/boston-marathon-john-korir-sets-course-record-to-defend-title\/"},"modified":"2026-04-20T17:51:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T17:51:21","slug":"boston-marathon-john-korir-sets-course-record-to-defend-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/20\/boston-marathon-john-korir-sets-course-record-to-defend-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Marathon: John Korir sets course record to defend title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Kenya&#8217;s John Korir set a new course record of two hours, one minute and 52 seconds to win a second successive Boston Marathon.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Compatriot Sharon Lokedi also defended her title in the women&#8217;s race, finishing in two hours, 18 minutes and 51 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Korir, 29, shaved one minute and 10 seconds of the previous course record set by Kenya&#8217;s Geoffrey Mutai in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">His latest victory follows wins at the Chicago Marathon in 2024 and the Valencia Marathon in December.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This year was a breeze for me because I had no problems at the start or at the finish,&#8221; Korir, who fell early before recovering to win last year&#8217;s edition, said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It felt like a race back home with all the people cheering. It was in my mind to set the course record and I thank God that he fulfilled my wishes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Korir&#8217;s time is the fifth fastest marathon run on record.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cwyxjzjdvp4o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya&#8217;s John Korir set a new course record of two hours, one minute and 52 seconds to win a second successive Boston Marathon. Compatriot Sharon Lokedi also defended her title in the women&#8217;s race, finishing in two hours, 18 minutes and 51 seconds. Korir, 29, shaved one minute and 10 seconds of the previous course [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":118469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/basketball.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}