{"id":61303,"date":"2025-02-15T13:43:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:43:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=61303"},"modified":"2025-02-15T13:43:11","modified_gmt":"2025-02-15T13:43:11","slug":"lagos-marathon-no-nigerian-winner-since-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/02\/15\/lagos-marathon-no-nigerian-winner-since-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Lagos Marathon: No Nigerian Winner Since 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Abdulkareem Adeyemi<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes have dominated the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon since its inception in 2016, with no Nigerian securing a victory in the prestigious Gold Label race.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan runners have won eight times, while Ethiopian athletes claimed the title in 2019 and 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The fastest recorded time remains 2 hours, 10 minutes, set by Kenya\u2019s David Barmasai in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Despite strong participation from Nigerian runners, East Africans continue to reign supreme in the annual 42 km race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Abdulkareem Adeyemi Kenyan and Ethiopian athletes have dominated the Access Bank Lagos City Marathon since its inception in 2016, with no Nigerian securing a victory in the prestigious Gold Label race. Kenyan runners have won eight times, while Ethiopian athletes claimed the title in 2019 and 2022. The fastest recorded time remains 2 hours, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":61304,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[175],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-61303","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\/61303","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=61303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":61305,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61303\/revisions\/61305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}