{"id":28862,"date":"2026-04-28T17:20:35","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sabastian-sawe-i-was-not-thinking-to-run-a-world-record-at-london-marathon\/"},"modified":"2026-04-28T17:20:35","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:20:35","slug":"sabastian-sawe-i-was-not-thinking-to-run-a-world-record-at-london-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/sabastian-sawe-i-was-not-thinking-to-run-a-world-record-at-london-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Sabastian Sawe: &#8216;I was not thinking to run a world record&#8217; at London Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Sabastian Sawe has admitted to the BBC that he was surprised to break the marathon world record in London, becoming the first person to run an official sub-two-hour race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Before securing sporting immortality by finishing in 1:59:30, the Kenyan underwent 12 months of frequent drug testing, including 25 out-of-competition tests before last September&#8217;s Berlin Marathon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He suffered a stress fracture in his foot during that race and has also had back issues which put his participation in doubt for London.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/videos\/c78q5nq11zwo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sabastian Sawe has admitted to the BBC that he was surprised to break the marathon world record in London, becoming the first person to run an official sub-two-hour race. Before securing sporting immortality by finishing in 1:59:30, the Kenyan underwent 12 months of frequent drug testing, including 25 out-of-competition tests before last September&#8217;s Berlin Marathon. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28863,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport-africa","category-world-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862","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=28862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28864,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28862\/revisions\/28864"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28863"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}