{"id":7559,"date":"2024-12-01T18:26:45","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/valencia-marathon-sabastian-sawe-wins-mens-race-megertu-alemu-wins-womens-race\/"},"modified":"2024-12-01T18:26:45","modified_gmt":"2024-12-01T18:26:45","slug":"valencia-marathon-sabastian-sawe-wins-mens-race-megertu-alemu-wins-womens-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/valencia-marathon-sabastian-sawe-wins-mens-race-megertu-alemu-wins-womens-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Valencia Marathon: Sabastian Sawe wins men’s race, Megertu Alemu wins women’s race"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe ran the fifth-fastest marathon of all time on his debut at the distance to win the Valencia Marathon.<\/b><\/p>\n

The 28-year-old triumphed in two hours two minutes five seconds, a time bettered only by Kelvin Kiptum, Eliud Kipchoge, Kenenisa Bekele and Sisay Lemma.<\/p>\n

“I am so excited and happy to win here. It is a great moment for me,” said Sawe, who won the half marathon title at the inaugural World Road Running Championships in Riga last year.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia’s Deresa Geleta finished second in 2:02:38 and Kenyan Daniel Mateiko third in 2:04:24.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia’s Megertu Alemu won the women’s race with a personal best of 2:16:49.<\/p>\n

Ugandan Stella Chesang was second in 2:18:26 and Ethiopian Tiruye Mesfin third in 2:18:35.<\/p>\n

A month after floods<\/a> in the Valencia region killed more than 220 people, the race began with a moment of silence for the victims.<\/p>\n

The organisers pledged to donate 3 euros (\u00a32.50) for every finisher, and the 35,000 runners were invited to contribute to a flood recovery fund.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n


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Kenya’s Sabastian Sawe ran the fifth-fastest marathon of all time on his debut at the distance to win the Valencia Marathon. The 28-year-old triumphed in two hours two minutes five seconds, a time bettered only by Kelvin Kiptum, Eliud Kipchoge, Kenenisa Bekele and Sisay Lemma. “I am so excited and happy to win here. It […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7559","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\/7559","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=7559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7561,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7559\/revisions\/7561"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}