{"id":209970,"date":"2025-10-16T00:27:56","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-sierra-leone-dominates-liberia-marathon-samura-smashes-course-record\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T00:27:56","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T22:27:56","slug":"liberia-sierra-leone-dominates-liberia-marathon-samura-smashes-course-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/liberia-sierra-leone-dominates-liberia-marathon-samura-smashes-course-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Liberia: Sierra Leone Dominates Liberia Marathon, Samura Smashes Course Record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"67\">The 2025 Liberia Full Marathon proved to be an overwhelming display of regional athletic power on Sunday, as runners from Sierra Leone delivered an unprecedented performance, sweeping all eight elite podium positions. At the heart of the victory was a course-shattering run by Amadu Sajor Samura, who not only claimed the men&#8217;s title but rewrote the record books at the Samuel Kanyon Doe Sports Stadium finish line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"3\"><strong>Record-Breaking Men&#8217;s Race<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The men&#8217;s Full Marathon was set up for drama, but Samura&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202510150312.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Sierra Leone\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/sierra-leone\/\">Sierra Leone<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2025 Liberia Full Marathon proved to be an overwhelming display of regional athletic power on Sunday, as runners from Sierra Leone delivered an unprecedented performance, sweeping all eight elite podium positions. At the heart of the victory was a course-shattering run by Amadu Sajor Samura, who not only claimed the men&#8217;s title but rewrote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":209971,"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":[1109],"tags":[258,256,13276,6572,4712,5150,257,5267,15618,6571,1135,21156,254],"class_list":["post-209970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sierra-leone","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dominates","tag-leone","tag-liberia","tag-marathon","tag-news","tag-record","tag-samura","tag-sierra","tag-sierra-leone-news","tag-smashes","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/209970","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=209970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}