{"id":238144,"date":"2026-04-12T19:30:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:30:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/sawan-barwal-breaks-shivnath-singhs-48-year-old-marathon-national-record\/"},"modified":"2026-04-12T19:30:37","modified_gmt":"2026-04-12T19:30:37","slug":"sawan-barwal-breaks-shivnath-singhs-48-year-old-marathon-national-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/12\/sawan-barwal-breaks-shivnath-singhs-48-year-old-marathon-national-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Sawan Barwal breaks Shivnath Singh&#8217;s 48-year-old marathon national record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"picture verticle\"><picture><!--[if IE 9]><video style=\"display: none;\"><![endif]--><source media=\"(min-width: 1600px)\" sizes=\"960px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/tsih9k\/article70855264.ece\/alternates\/FREE_1200\/PTI04_12_2026_000584B.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 768px) and (max-width: 1599px)\" sizes=\"640px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/tsih9k\/article70855264.ece\/alternates\/FREE_1200\/PTI04_12_2026_000584B.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(min-width: 321px) and (max-width: 767px)\" sizes=\"400px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/tsih9k\/article70855264.ece\/alternates\/FREE_1200\/PTI04_12_2026_000584B.jpg\"\/><source media=\"(max-width: 320px)\" sizes=\"320px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/th-i.thgim.com\/public\/incoming\/tsih9k\/article70855264.ece\/alternates\/FREE_1200\/PTI04_12_2026_000584B.jpg\"\/><!--[if IE 9]><\/video><![endif]--><\/picture><\/div>\n<p class=\"caption\">\n                    Long-distance runner Sawan Barwal scripted history by breaking the 48-year-old marathon national record, the longest-standing mark in Indian athletics, at the NN Marathon Rotterdam, Netherlands. Photo credits: Athletics Federation of India via PTI Photo\n                                      <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"content-body-70855260\">\n<div class=\"schemaDiv\" id=\"schemaDiv\" itemprop=\"articleBody\">\n<p>Long-distance runner Sawan Barwal on Sunday (April 12, 2026) scripted history by breaking the 48-year-old marathon national record, the longest standing mark in Indian athletics, at the NN Marathon Rotterdam.<\/p>\n<p>Barwal clocked 2 hours 11 minutes and 58 seconds in a world class field to finish 20th in the elite marathon race and erase the previous national record of 2:12:00 which stood since 1978 in Shivnath Singh&#8217;s name.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"update-publish-time article-published-time-end\">\n<p class=\"publish-time-new\"> Published <span>&#8211; April 13, 2026 01:00 am IST<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/sport\/athletics\/sawan-barwal-breaks-shivnath-singhs-48-year-old-marathon-national-record\/article70855260.ece\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long-distance runner Sawan Barwal scripted history by breaking the 48-year-old marathon national record, the longest-standing mark in Indian athletics, at the NN Marathon Rotterdam, Netherlands. Photo credits: Athletics Federation of India via PTI Photo Long-distance runner Sawan Barwal on Sunday (April 12, 2026) scripted history by breaking the 48-year-old marathon national record, the longest standing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[71858,71855,71857,71856,71854],"class_list":{"0":"post-238144","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics","8":"tag-india-marathon-time-record","9":"tag-indian-marathon-runners","10":"tag-marathon-records-india","11":"tag-nn-marathon-rotterdam","12":"tag-sawan-barwal"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238144","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=238144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}