{"id":12618,"date":"2021-10-25T09:00:39","date_gmt":"2021-10-25T09:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=12618"},"modified":"2021-10-25T10:27:00","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T10:27:00","slug":"ethiopias-letesenbet-gidey-smashes-womens-half-marathon-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?p=12618","title":{"rendered":"Letesenbet Gidey smashes women&#8217;s half marathon world record"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Source: <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/59027653?xtor=AL-72-%5Bpartner%5D-%5Bbbc.news.twitter%5D-%5Bheadline%5D-%5Bnews%5D-%5Bbizdev%5D-%5Bisapi%5D&amp;at_custom2=twitter&amp;at_campaign=64&amp;at_medium=custom7&amp;at_custom1=%5Bpost+type%5D&amp;at_custom3=%40BBCWorld&amp;at_custom4=9760963E-34C5-11EC-826C-69E64744363C\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">BBC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">October 24, 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ethiopia&#8217;s Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women&#8217;s half marathon world record by running 62 minutes and 52 seconds in Valencia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 23-year-old beat the previous best over 13.1 miles &#8211; set by Kenyan Ruth Chepngetich &#8211; by 70 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Gidey is also the world 5,000m and 10,000m world record holder, winning bronze in the latter distance at the Tokyo Olympics in the summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;I&#8217;m so happy to break the world record in my first half marathon,&#8221; said Gidey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Compatriot Yalemzerf Yehualaw was second with a time of 63 minutes 51 seconds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Yehualaw thought she had set the women&#8217;s half marathon record earlier this year but&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/59025054\">her time was not ratified<\/a>&nbsp;after the course was found to be 54 metres short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: BBC October 24, 2021 Ethiopia&#8217;s Letesenbet Gidey smashed the women&#8217;s half marathon world record by running 62<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12619,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[23,32],"class_list":["post-12618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-bbc","tag-english"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526.jpg",976,549,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526.jpg",300,169,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526.jpg",640,360,false],"large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526.jpg",640,360,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526.jpg",976,549,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526.jpg",976,549,false],"morenews-large":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526.jpg",825,464,false],"morenews-medium":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526.jpg",590,332,false],"woocommerce_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526-300x300.jpg",300,300,true],"woocommerce_single":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526.jpg",600,338,false],"woocommerce_gallery_thumbnail":["https:\/\/axumawian.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/526-100x100.jpg",100,100,true]},"author_info":{"info":["Axumawian Media"]},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/?cat=4\" rel=\"category\">News<\/a>","tag_info":"News","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12618"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12631,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12618\/revisions\/12631"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/12619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/axumawian.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}