{"id":207901,"date":"2025-09-22T19:13:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:13:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-duo-sawe-and-wanjiru-triumph-at-berlin-marathon\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T19:13:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T17:13:11","slug":"kenyan-duo-sawe-and-wanjiru-triumph-at-berlin-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyan-duo-sawe-and-wanjiru-triumph-at-berlin-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Duo Sawe and Wanjiru Triumph At Berlin Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\"><em>Kenyans Sabastian Sawe and Rosemary Wanjiru won the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s editions of the Berlin Marathon on Sunday, both breaking through for the first time in the German capital.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Sawe finished in 2hr 02min 16sec in just his third marathon attempt, 11 seconds slower than his personal best set on his debut in Valencia in 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">&#8220;It was hard but I gave my best. I&#8217;m happy about my performance,&#8221; Sawe told Germany&#8217;s RTL network.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\n  <span style=\"font-size: 110%;\"><br \/>\nFollow us on <a href=\"https:\/\/whatsapp.com\/channel\/0029VaIdDi8Bqbr263erhw1K\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">WhatsApp<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/allafrica\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">LinkedIn<\/a> for the latest headlines<br \/>\n  <\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Sawe&#8217;s&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509220495.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>Kenyans Sabastian Sawe and Rosemary Wanjiru won the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s editions of the Berlin Marathon on Sunday, both breaking through for the first time in the German capital. Sawe finished in 2hr 02min 16sec in just his third marathon attempt, 11 seconds slower than his personal best set on his debut in Valencia in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":207902,"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":[258,256,9557,7593,430,4524,5150,257,51242,254,12739,8209],"class_list":["post-207901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-berlin","tag-duo","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyan","tag-marathon","tag-news","tag-sawe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-triumph","tag-wanjiru"],"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\/207901","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=207901"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/207901\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=207901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=207901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=207901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}