{"id":2391,"date":"2014-06-01T19:58:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-01T12:58:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=2391"},"modified":"2014-06-01T19:58:44","modified_gmt":"2014-06-01T12:58:44","slug":"comrades-marathon-2014-men-and-womens-top-finishers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/more-sport\/comrades-marathon-2014-men-and-womens-top-finishers\/","title":{"rendered":"Comrades Marathon 2014: Men and Women&#8217;s Top Finishers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bongmusa Mthembu was crowned 2014 Comrades Marathon champion on Sunday. The South African ran a time of five hours, 28 minutes and 34 seconds to triumph in front of a home crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The official Comrades Marathon Twitter account was on hand to capture the first-place finisher&#8217;s crowning moment, with countryman Ludwick Mamabolo finishing second and Gift Kelehe in third:<\/p>\n<p>Mthembu was four minutes and 41 seconds faster than nearest rival Mamabolo, clocking in with an average time of three minutes and 41 seconds per kilometre.<\/p>\n<p>Elena Nurgalieva had the opportunity to record her ninth victory in the 89-kilometre ultramarathon, but she dropped off the leading pace with barely six kilometres remaining, giving way to Nedbank International runner Eleanor Greenwood&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Source\" href=\"http:\/\/bleacherreport.com\/articles\/2082134-comrades-marathon-2014-results-men-and-womens-top-finishers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>South Africa Today Sport &#8211; Comrades Marathon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bongmusa Mthembu was crowned 2014 Comrades Marathon champion on Sunday. The South African ran a time of five hours, 28 minutes and 34 seconds to triumph in front of a home crowd. The official Comrades Marathon Twitter account was on hand to capture the first-place finisher&#8217;s crowning moment, with countryman Ludwick Mamabolo finishing second and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[245,244,243,246,114,120],"class_list":["post-2391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-more-sport","tag-bongmusa-mthembu","tag-comrades-marathon","tag-comrades-marathon-2014","tag-eleanor-greenwood","tag-south-africa-today","tag-south-africa-today-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}