{"id":267829,"date":"2019-03-04T10:30:29","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:30:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/?p=267829"},"modified":"2019-03-04T10:30:29","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T15:30:29","slug":"ethiopian-athletes-win-men-and-womens-category-of-the-2019-tokyo-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/267829","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian athletes win men and women&#8217;s category of the 2019 Tokyo Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian runners have dominated the Tokyo annual Marathon with wins in both the men and women&#8217;s races.<\/p>\n<p>Birhanu Legesse won the men&#8217;s category at the Tokyo Marathon with a time of 2:04:48. Kenyan Bedan Karoki came in\u00a0second place with a time of 2:06:48.<\/p>\n<p>In the women&#8217;s category, Ethiopia&#8217;s Ruti Aga came in first place with a time of 2:20:40. Helen Tola, another Ethiopian runner, finished second place. Ruti also won second place during last year&#8217;s Tokyo Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>The Tokyo Marathon is the biggest running competition in Japan and it brings together some of the best runners in the world. [&#8230;&#8230;] <a href=\"https:\/\/newbusinessethiopia.com\/ethiopian-athletes-dominate-tokyo-marathon\/\">CONTINUE READING<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethiopian runners have dominated the Tokyo annual Marathon with wins in both the men and women&#8217;s races. Birhanu Legesse won the men&#8217;s category at the Tokyo Marathon with a time of 2:04:48. Kenyan Bedan Karoki came in\u00a0second place with a time of 2:06:48. In the women&#8217;s category, Ethiopia&#8217;s Ruti Aga came in first place with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":267854,"comment_status":"open","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-267829","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\/03\/Birhanu-Legese.png?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-17FP","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267829","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=267829"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267829\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":267858,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267829\/revisions\/267858"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}