{"id":52310,"date":"2023-12-16T19:34:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-16T17:34:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/more-sport\/eritrea-athlete-samson-won-gold-medal-at-abu-dhabi-marathon\/"},"modified":"2023-12-16T19:34:31","modified_gmt":"2023-12-16T17:34:31","slug":"eritrea-athlete-samson-won-gold-medal-at-abu-dhabi-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/more-sport\/eritrea-athlete-samson-won-gold-medal-at-abu-dhabi-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrea: Athlete Samson Won Gold Medal at Abu Dhabi Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"press-body-in\">\n                            <span><br \/>\n                                                            ASMARA, Eritrea, December 16, 2023\/APO Group\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eritrean athlete Samson Amare won the gold medal at the fifth Adnoc Abu Dhabi Marathon held today.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Samson finished with a time of 2 hours, 7 minutes, and 10 seconds, outpacing Kenya\u2019s Leonard Barsoton and Turkey\u2019s Ilham Ozbilan.<\/p>\n<p>Athlete Samson Amare made history as the first male winner from outside Kenya in this event.<\/p>\n<p>Samson\u2019s victory in Abu Dhabi marked his first major marathon win.<\/p>\n<p>On the women\u2019s side, Kenyan Brigid Kosgei won the gold medal, breaking last year\u2019s record set by Eunice Chumba of Bahrain by over a minute.<\/p>\n<p>In the same vein, Henok Mulubrhan is named the 2023 Best African Cyclist.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, Henok is the winner of the 12th African Cyclist Trophy, ahead of his compatriot Biniam Girmay, winner for the last three years, and Morocco\u2019s Achraf Ed Doghmy.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Henok Mulubrhan, 24, owes his distinction to his overall victory and stage wins at Tour du Rwanda.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/eritrea-athlete-samson-won-gold-medal-at-abu-dhabi-marathon?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASMARA, Eritrea, December 16, 2023\/APO Group\/ &#8212; Eritrean athlete Samson Amare won the gold medal at the fifth Adnoc Abu Dhabi Marathon held today. Samson finished with a time of 2 hours, 7 minutes, and 10 seconds, outpacing Kenya\u2019s Leonard Barsoton and Turkey\u2019s Ilham Ozbilan. Athlete Samson Amare made history as the first male winner [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0cca64479b3fda2","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-more-sport"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/0cca64479b3fda2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52310","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=52310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}