{"id":61,"date":"2012-04-24T14:57:23","date_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/?p=61"},"modified":"2012-04-24T14:57:44","modified_gmt":"2012-04-24T14:57:44","slug":"mikitenko-top-european-in-london","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/marathon\/mikitenko-top-european-in-london","title":{"rendered":"Mikitenko top European in London"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Irina<\/a>

Irina Mikitenko<\/p><\/div>\n

Irina Mikitenko produced the best European performance at the 2012 Virgin London Marathon on Sunday when the German runner came home seventh in the women’s race in 2:24:53.<\/p>\n

Mikitenko, the third fastest European ever and a previous London winner in 2008 and 2009, was running on her own for much of the race after getting detached form the leading group just after 10km.<\/p>\n

She went through the halfway point in 1:12:01 before a strong showing over the final 5km when she made up several places for the fourth fastest European time of the year.<\/p>\n

Just one place behind Mikitenko was Portugal’s 2010 SPAR European Cross Country Championships gold medallist Jessica Augusto, who clocked 2:24:59; her time was just 26 seconds shy of her personal best which was set in the same race 12 months ago.<\/p>\n

Kenya’s Mary Keitany won the women’s race in 2:18:37.<\/p>\n

Turkey’s Bekir Karayel, a convincing winner on home soil at the Balkan Cross Country Championships last month, confirmed his good form by being the first European home in the men’s race.<\/p>\n

Karayel finished 16th in 2:13:21, taking more than two minutes off his personal best after a well-paced run which saw him go through the halfway point in 1:06:27 Kenya’s Wilson Kipsang won in 2:04:44.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Irina Mikitenko produced the best European performance at the 2012 Virgin London Marathon on Sunday when the German runner came home seventh in the women’s race in 2:24:53.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,7,48,1],"tags":[45,50,49],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-featured","category-marathon","category-news","tag-45","tag-irina-mikitenko","tag-london-marathon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/64"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}