{"id":116,"date":"2012-09-17T09:44:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T09:44:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/?p=116"},"modified":"2012-09-17T09:44:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T09:44:59","slug":"kipsang-conquers-great-north","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/news\/kipsang-conquers-great-north","title":{"rendered":"Kipsang conquers Great North"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wilson Kipsang produced a superb sprint finish to win the Great North Run from fellow Kenyan Micah Kogo.<\/p>\n

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Wilson Kipsang<\/p><\/div>\n

Kipsang, who took bronze in the London Olympic marathon, produced a late surge to pass Kogo and win the half marathon in 59 minutes and six seconds.<\/p>\n

Ethiopia’s Imana Merga was third with Britain’s Chris Thompson in sixth.<\/p>\n

Olympic 10,000m champion Tirunesh Dibaba of Ethiopia won the women’s race on her half marathon debut. Jo Pavey was the first Briton home in fifth.<\/p>\n

Kipsang may have missed out on gold in the Olympics but he did win the London marathon earlier this year and started the race as favourite.<\/p>\n

He and compatriot Kogo broke clear of the field early on and Kipsang found a late finish to clock the second-best time round the Great North Run course.<\/p>\n

“The finish was quite fantastic. I decided to sprint,” said Kipsang.<\/p>\n

“Towards the last part I believed in myself and I got the feeling that I could sprint.<\/p>\n

“For me winning this race is really good for me. It was my first time running in the GNR and I really enjoyed the race. There were a lot of people cheering and it was fantastic.”<\/p>\n

In the elite women’s race, Dibaba won in a time of 1:07:35 in a hugely impressive first competitive race over the distance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Wilson Kipsang produced a superb sprint finish to win the Great North Run from fellow Kenyan Micah Kogo. Kipsang, who took bronze in the London Olympic marathon, produced a late surge to pass Kogo and win the half marathon in 59 minutes and six seconds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":117,"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":[1,33],"tags":[39,74,226,75,73],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uk","tag-39","tag-great-north","tag-kenya","tag-tirunesh-dibaba","tag-wilson-kipsang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}