{"id":51485,"date":"2026-04-28T10:25:58","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sebastian-sawes-parents-celebrate-marathon-world-record\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T10:25:58","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T10:25:58","slug":"sebastian-sawes-parents-celebrate-marathon-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/sebastian-sawes-parents-celebrate-marathon-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Sebastian Sawe&#8217;s parents celebrate marathon world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Sebastian Sawe&#8217;s parents have shared their pride at the runner&#8217;s historic sub-two-hour London Marathon win. <\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">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=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\">Simion and Emily told the BBC they watched the race from home in rural Kenya, and are planning celebrations for when Sebastian returns.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-1a18e57c-0 diouKf\"><a target=\"_self\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cp383n09030o\" class=\"sc-2554282c-0 eFLwgv\">More on this story.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/videos\/cn0pl57xlppo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sebastian 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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":51486,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51485","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51485"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51487,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51485\/revisions\/51487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51485"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51485"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}