{"id":5881,"date":"2011-04-21T14:28:13","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5881"},"modified":"2011-04-21T14:28:13","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T18:28:13","slug":"kenyan-wins-boston-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/?p=5881","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Wins  Boston Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Kenya\u2019s <strong>Geoffrey Mutai<\/strong> won the Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds \u2014 the fastest anyone has ever run the 26.2 mile distance.<\/p>\n<p>The previous best of 2:03:59 was by<strong> Haile Gebrselassie <\/strong>in Berlin 2008. But because Monday\u2019s race had a strong tailwind on a downhill course, <strong>Mutai\u2019s<\/strong> run is not recognized by track\u2019s international governing body as a record.<\/p>\n<p>But <strong>Mutai<\/strong> was almost three minutes better than the course record set just last year by <strong>Robert Kiprono Cheruiyot<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Caroline Kilel<\/strong> won the women\u2019s race to complete the Kenyan sweep, outsprinting American <strong>Desiree Davila<\/strong> to win by two seconds, in 2:22:36.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOSTON \u2014 Kenya\u2019s Geoffrey Mutai won the Boston Marathon in 2 hours, 3 minutes, 2 seconds \u2014 the fastest anyone has ever run the 26.2 mile distance. The previous best of 2:03:59 was by Haile Gebrselassie in Berlin 2008. But because Monday\u2019s race had a strong tailwind on a downhill course, Mutai\u2019s run is not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","pmpro-has-access"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/flsentinel.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}