{"id":201271,"date":"2025-06-30T14:01:03","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:01:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-haitope-paulus-shine-in-star-studded-half-marathon\/"},"modified":"2025-06-30T14:01:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T12:01:03","slug":"namibia-haitope-paulus-shine-in-star-studded-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-haitope-paulus-shine-in-star-studded-half-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Haitope, Paulus Shine in Star-Studded Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Marathon runner Lavinia Haitope claimed a decisive victory in the women&#8217;s 21-kilometre race at the 11th edition of the Nelson Mandela Bay Half Marathon (Qgebertha Half Marathon), held on Saturday in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Haitope clocked a time of 1 hour, 14 minutes and 1 second (1:14:01) to cross the finish line ahead of a competitive field that featured elite runners from across Africa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">South African runners Busisiwe Chamene and Malineo Mahloko secured second and third places respectively in the women&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506300189.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>Marathon runner Lavinia Haitope claimed a decisive victory in the women&#8217;s 21-kilometre race at the 11th edition of the Nelson Mandela Bay Half Marathon (Qgebertha Half Marathon), held on Saturday in South Africa. Haitope clocked a time of 1 hour, 14 minutes and 1 second (1:14:01) to cross the finish line ahead of a competitive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":201272,"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":[258,256,51766,5150,4706,724,257,33887,11202,254,49386],"class_list":["post-201271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-haitope","tag-marathon","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-paulus","tag-shine","tag-south-africa-today","tag-starstudded"],"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\/201271","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=201271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}