{"id":13469,"date":"2026-04-20T19:00:51","date_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13469"},"modified":"2026-04-20T19:00:51","modified_gmt":"2026-04-20T18:00:51","slug":"boston-marathon-john-korir-sets-course-record-to-defend-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=13469","title":{"rendered":"Boston Marathon: John Korir sets course record to defend title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/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><br \/><\/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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}