{"id":263136,"date":"2026-09-17T16:27:50","date_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:27:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/two-stars-join-the-berlin-marathon-vainio-runs-another-marathon-bekele-competes-at-44-athletics-news\/"},"modified":"2026-09-17T16:27:50","modified_gmt":"2026-09-17T16:27:50","slug":"two-stars-join-the-berlin-marathon-vainio-runs-another-marathon-bekele-competes-at-44-athletics-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/09\/17\/two-stars-join-the-berlin-marathon-vainio-runs-another-marathon-bekele-competes-at-44-athletics-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Stars Join the Berlin Marathon: Vainio Runs Another Marathon, Bekele Competes at 44 &#8211; Athletics News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The legendary Ethiopian athlete <strong>Kenenisa Bekele<\/strong> will return to the streets of Berlin to take part in his marathon, where <strong>he won in 2016 with 2:03:03<\/strong> and again prevailed in 2019 with <strong>2:01:41<\/strong>, just two seconds off the world record at the time. The event is scheduled for next Sunday, September 27.<\/p>\n<p>Bekele, one of the most accomplished athletes in history, boasts <strong>three Olympic golds and 11 world cross-country titles<\/strong>. In 2024 he finished second in London with 2:04:15, a time that set a masters world record.<\/p>\n<p>The organizers have also confirmed the additions of <strong>Alisa Vainio<\/strong>, the European marathon champion in Birmingham with a championships record (2:22:26), who will run her seventh marathon in 12 months, and the German <strong>Laura Hottenrott<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.athletics.co.ke\/two-stars-join-the-berlin-marathon-vainio-runs-another-marathon-bekele-competes-at-44\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The legendary Ethiopian athlete Kenenisa Bekele will return to the streets of Berlin to take part in his marathon, where he won in 2016 with 2:03:03 and again prevailed in 2019 with 2:01:41, just two seconds off the world record at the time. The event is scheduled for next Sunday, September 27. Bekele, one of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":263137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6802],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263136","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-athetics"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263136","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=263136"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263136\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sports.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}