{"id":20267,"date":"2025-09-25T23:07:25","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:07:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/shewarge-alene-stockholm-marathon-winner-dies-aged-30\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T23:07:25","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T23:07:25","slug":"shewarge-alene-stockholm-marathon-winner-dies-aged-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/shewarge-alene-stockholm-marathon-winner-dies-aged-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Shewarge Alene: Stockholm marathon winner dies aged 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Ethiopian runner Shewarge Alene has died aged 30, the organiser of the Stockholm marathon has confirmed.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alene won the race &#8211; her most recent competition &#8211; in the Swedish capital in May.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She competed in 27 marathons as a professional between 2011 and 2025, recording 12 victories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It is with deep sorrow that we have received the news of the passing of Shewarge Alene, winner of adidas Stockholm Marathon 2025,&#8221; the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DO_lYhGEYBL\/?hl=en\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Stockholm marathon posted on Instagram<span class=\"visually-hidden ssrcss-1f39n02-VisuallyHidden e16en2lz0\">, <!-- -->external<\/span><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Shewarge Alene became unwell during a training session and was taken to hospital, where sadly, her life could not be saved. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Our thoughts are with her family and loved ones.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alene recorded a personal best time of 2:27:26 in Cape Town, South Africa in 2023.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cn76jlvlpp5o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian runner Shewarge Alene has died aged 30, the organiser of the Stockholm marathon has confirmed. Alene won the race &#8211; her most recent competition &#8211; in the Swedish capital in May. She competed in 27 marathons as a professional between 2011 and 2025, recording 12 victories. &#8220;It is with deep sorrow that we have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20267"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20269,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20267\/revisions\/20269"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20267"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20267"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20267"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}