{"id":196994,"date":"2025-04-28T23:52:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sabastian-sawe-too-soon-to-start-talking-about-marathon-world-record\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T23:52:10","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T21:52:10","slug":"kenya-sabastian-sawe-too-soon-to-start-talking-about-marathon-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-sabastian-sawe-too-soon-to-start-talking-about-marathon-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: Sabastian Sawe &#8211; Too Soon to Start Talking About Marathon World Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Newly crowned London Marathon champion Sabastian Sawe believes it is too soon to start speaking about smashing the world record for the men&#8217;s 42km.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Sawe says he would love to break the world record &#8212; held by fellow Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum &#8212; but will not lose sleepless nights over it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">&#8220;I can&#8217;t say that I am preparing for the world record but with time it will come. Everything comes at its right time,&#8221; the 29-year-old said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Kiptum set a new world record of 2:00:35 at the Chicago Marathon in October&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202504280517.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newly crowned London Marathon champion Sabastian Sawe believes it is too soon to start speaking about smashing the world record for the men&#8217;s 42km. Sawe says he would love to break the world record &#8212; held by fellow Kenyan Kelvin Kiptum &#8212; but will not lose sleepless nights over it. &#8220;I can&#8217;t say that I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":196995,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4688,430,5150,257,5267,51241,51242,254,7138,16059,5093],"class_list":["post-196994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-marathon","tag-news","tag-record","tag-sabastian","tag-sawe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-start","tag-talking","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/196994","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\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196994\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196995"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}