{"id":14124,"date":"2026-04-28T12:17:27","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:17:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=14124"},"modified":"2026-04-28T12:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T11:17:27","slug":"london-marathon-sabastian-sawes-parents-celebrate-marathon-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/?p=14124","title":{"rendered":"London Marathon: Sabastian Sawe&#8217;s parents celebrate marathon world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sabastian Sawe&#8217;s parents have shared their pride at the runner&#8217;s historic sub-two-hour London Marathon win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 31-year-old Kenyan set a new world record after crossing the line in one hour 59 minutes 30 seconds on Sunday, more than a minute faster than the previous record holder&#8217;s time. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Simion and Emily told the BBC they watched the race from home in rural Kenya, and are planning celebrations for when Sabastian returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">More on this story.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabastian Sawe&#8217;s parents have shared their pride at the runner&#8217;s historic sub-two-hour London Marathon win. The 31-year-old Kenyan set a new world record after crossing the line in one hour 59 minutes 30 seconds on Sunday, more than a minute faster than the previous record holder&#8217;s time. Simion and Emily told the BBC they watched<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14125,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14124","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\/14124","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=14124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/14125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/outdoorthrill.cfd\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}