{"id":204933,"date":"2025-09-26T07:45:57","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:45:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/ethiopian-marathon-champion-shewarge-alene-dies-at-30\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:45:57","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T07:45:57","slug":"ethiopian-marathon-champion-shewarge-alene-dies-at-30","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/09\/26\/ethiopian-marathon-champion-shewarge-alene-dies-at-30\/","title":{"rendered":"Ethiopian Marathon Champion Shewarge Alene Dies at 30"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">Swedish Marathon organisers have\u00a0<a class=\"external external-icon\" title=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cn76jlvlpp5o\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cn76jlvlpp5o\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">confirmed<\/a>\u00a0that Ethiopian marathon runner Shewarge Alene died at 30 years old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Alene, who won the Stockholm race in May, fell ill during a training session. She was taken to the hospital, where she passed away.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">She competed in 27 marathons as a professional between 2011 and 2025, recording 12 victories.\u00a0Her personal best of 2:27:26 was set in Cape Town in 2023.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">The Stockholm Marathon organisers paid tribute to her on\u00a0<a class=\"external external-icon\" title=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DO_lYhGEYBL\/?hl=en\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DO_lYhGEYBL\/?hl=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Instagram<\/a>, expressing deep sorrow and sending condolences to her family and loved ones.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202509260097.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swedish Marathon organisers have\u00a0confirmed\u00a0that Ethiopian marathon runner Shewarge Alene died at 30 years old. Alene, who won the Stockholm race in May, fell ill during a training session. She was taken to the hospital, where she passed away. She competed in 27 marathons as a professional between 2011 and 2025, recording 12 victories.\u00a0Her personal best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":204934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[151,72,155,157,160,153,180,88,152,161,156,154,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-204933","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-athletics","10":"tag-business","11":"tag-current-events","12":"tag-east-africa","13":"tag-economy","14":"tag-ethiopia","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-politics","17":"tag-sport","18":"tag-sports","19":"tag-trade","20":"tag-travel"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=204933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/204933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/204934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=204933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=204933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=204933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}