{"id":200122,"date":"2025-06-14T13:27:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:27:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-fly-the-flag-at-2025-comrades-ultra-marathon\/"},"modified":"2025-06-14T13:27:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T11:27:21","slug":"namibians-fly-the-flag-at-2025-comrades-ultra-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibians-fly-the-flag-at-2025-comrades-ultra-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibians Fly the Flag At 2025 Comrades Ultra Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Namibia celebrated a strong showing at the 2025 Comrades Ultra Marathon in South Africa this past weekend, with 76 runners crossing the finish line at the world&#8217;s oldest<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"6\">and most prestigious ultra-distance road race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\">Leading the charge was the seven-member Performance Movement team, whose standout performances highlighted Namibia&#8217;s growing presence on the global<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"2\">endurance stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">Veteran ultra-marathoner Harold &#8216;Bolla&#8217; Akwenye ran his third Comrades in a steady,<\/p>\n<p><!--\/.outer-ad-container.gpt-outer-ad-container.gpt-inread-outer-ad-container.inread-a-container--><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">tactical fashion. His time of 8&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506130296.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia celebrated a strong showing at the 2025 Comrades Ultra Marathon in South Africa this past weekend, with 76 runners crossing the finish line at the world&#8217;s oldest and most prestigious ultra-distance road race. Leading the charge was the seven-member Performance Movement team, whose standout performances highlighted Namibia&#8217;s growing presence on the global endurance stage. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":200123,"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":[723],"tags":[258,256,51625,10071,10686,5150,724,7974,257,254,38294],"class_list":["post-200122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-comrades","tag-flag","tag-fly","tag-marathon","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibians","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-ultra"],"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\/200122","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}