{"id":231540,"date":"2026-04-27T02:32:55","date_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-history-written-sawe-does-the-impossible-breaking-world-record-in-sub-2\/"},"modified":"2026-04-27T02:32:55","modified_gmt":"2026-04-27T00:32:55","slug":"kenya-history-written-sawe-does-the-impossible-breaking-world-record-in-sub-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-history-written-sawe-does-the-impossible-breaking-world-record-in-sub-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: History Written! Sawe Does the Impossible Breaking World Record in Sub-2"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Nairobi \u2014 Kenyan Sabastian Sawe wrote history as the first man to officially run a marathon under two hours in a legitimate race after winning the London Marathon in a staggering World Record time of 1:59:30 on Sunday<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Sawe, who has never lost a marathon race since his debut in 2024, broke from the rest of the pack at the 35km mark with debutant Ethiopian Yomif Kejelcha the only one having the courage to follow him, but could not beat the Kenyan, who went on to cut the tape in a World Record…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Nairobi \u2014 Kenyan Sabastian Sawe wrote history as the first man to officially run a marathon under two hours in a legitimate race after winning the London Marathon in a staggering World Record time of 1:59:30 on Sunday. Sawe, who has never lost a marathon race since his debut in 2024, broke from the rest […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":231541,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681262:c4d2d180fa40ccf705921fdb81de9f69:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,4286,7099,19132,4688,430,257,5267,51242,254,54277,5093,19277],"class_list":["post-231540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-breaking","tag-history","tag-impossible","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-news","tag-record","tag-sawe","tag-south-africa-today","tag-sub2","tag-world","tag-written"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00681262:c4d2d180fa40ccf705921fdb81de9f69:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231540","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=231540"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231540\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}