{"id":262142,"date":"2019-01-23T09:04:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-23T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.google.com\/articles\/CAIiEKOg66a-qZS_A1Lmnsdj6n0qGQgEKhAIACoHCAow4c2JCzC4uZsDMKLPoQY?oc=5"},"modified":"2019-02-06T03:43:42","modified_gmt":"2019-02-06T08:43:42","slug":"ethiopian-runner-wins-chevron-houston-marathon-in-under-3-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/262142","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian runner wins Chevron Houston Marathon in under 3 minutes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopia&#8217;s Biruktayit Degefa has won the Chevron Houston Marathon with a time of 2:23:28. On Sunday, Biruktayit became the first woman in the history of the competition to win it three times in a row. Her win was also the 13th by an Ethiopian woman in the history of the competition.<\/p>\n<p>Apart\u00a0from Biruktayit, other Ethiopia female athletes also came second and third. Meseret Belete, a 19-year-old who was making her marathon debut, came second with a time of 2:26:51 while Belaynesh Fikadu came third in the race with a time of 2:26:51.<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s race, Kenya&#8217;s Albert Korir won the first position ahead of Ethiopia&#8217;s Yitayal Atnafu. [&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/sport\/athletics\/degefa-retains-title-in-houston-marathon-in-ethiopian-clean-sweep-18893947\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Degefa retains title in Houston Marathon in Ethiopian clean sweep&nbsp;&nbsp;IOLTEXAS \u2013 Ethiopian Biruktayit Degefa retained her title at the Chevron Houston Marathon and came within 14 seconds of the course record, while Kenya&#8217;s Albert &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":262355,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-262142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopian-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/degefa-houston.jpg?fit=588%2C1024&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-16c6","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=262142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262356,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262142\/revisions\/262356"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/262355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}