{"id":61294,"date":"2025-02-15T11:17:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61294"},"modified":"2025-02-15T11:17:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T11:17:01","slug":"kenya-ethiopia-dominate-2025-lagos-city-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/15\/kenya-ethiopia-dominate-2025-lagos-city-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya, Ethiopia Dominate 2025 Lagos City Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kenya\u2019s Edwin Kibet and Ethiopia\u2019s Guta Meseret Hirpa clinched victory at the 2025 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, reaffirming East Africa\u2019s dominance in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Kibet secured the men\u2019s title in 2:14:06, winning $50,000\u2014his second triumph after a 2023 victory.<\/p>\n<p>Hirpa claimed her first title in the women\u2019s category with a time of 2:37:04.<\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Nyango Gyang Boyi made history as the first local runner to finish in the top 10, placing 8th with 2:25:41.58 and earning a total of $4,000 and N2 million.<\/p>\n<p>The gold-label marathon attracted thousands of participants, including Lagos State Governor Babajide Sanwo-Olu.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Ifeoluwa Odunayo Kenya\u2019s Edwin Kibet and Ethiopia\u2019s Guta Meseret Hirpa clinched victory at the 2025 Access Bank Lagos City Marathon, reaffirming East Africa\u2019s dominance in the event. Kibet secured the men\u2019s title in 2:14:06, winning $50,000\u2014his second triumph after a 2023 victory. Hirpa claimed her first title in the women\u2019s category with a time [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61295,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61294","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61296,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61294\/revisions\/61296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}