{"id":180241,"date":"2024-09-09T16:58:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-thousands-turn-out-for-2024-kgl-foundation-millennium-marathon\/"},"modified":"2024-09-09T16:58:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-09T14:58:32","slug":"ghana-thousands-turn-out-for-2024-kgl-foundation-millennium-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-thousands-turn-out-for-2024-kgl-foundation-millennium-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Thousands Turn Out for 2024 Kgl Foundation Millennium Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"32\">Thousands of runners filled the streets of Accra on Saturday for the 2024 KGL Foundation Millennium Marathon, an event that saw participants from various African countries, including Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, Kenya, and Ethiopia.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The marathon featured two main races: a 5-kilometre fun run and a more competitive 21-kilometre race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Starting at the Accra Sports Stadium and ending at the Independence Square, the event drew a mix of elite athletes and casual runners, highlighting the broad appeal of the&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409090288.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of runners filled the streets of Accra on Saturday for the 2024 KGL Foundation Millennium Marathon, an event that saw participants from various African countries, including Cote d&#8217;Ivoire, Kenya, and Ethiopia. The marathon featured two main races: a 5-kilometre fun run and a more competitive 21-kilometre race. Starting at the Accra Sports Stadium and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":180242,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,5265,4508,4509,49478,5150,25822,257,254,9216,7101],"class_list":["post-180241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-foundation","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-kgl","tag-marathon","tag-millennium","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-thousands","tag-turn"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=180241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180241\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}