{"id":172,"date":"2013-01-25T13:36:30","date_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/?p=172"},"modified":"2013-01-25T13:36:30","modified_gmt":"2013-01-25T13:36:30","slug":"desisa-wins-dubai-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/news\/desisa-wins-dubai-2013","title":{"rendered":"Desisa wins Dubai 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_173\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Desisa-Dubai.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\" wp-image-173  \" title=\"Lelisa Desisa wins Dubai 2013\" alt=\"Lelisa Desisa wins Dubai 2013\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Desisa-Dubai.jpg\" width=\"540\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Desisa-Dubai.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Desisa-Dubai-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-173\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lelisa Desisa wins Dubai 2013<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Lelisa Desisa wins Dubai as five men break 2:05<\/p>\n<p>Running his debut Ethiopia\u2019s Lelisa Desisa won the 14th Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon with a world-class time of 2:04:45. In a tight finish, five men broke 2:05 for the first time in marathon history. All five were still in contention for victory and the 200,000 US Dollar first prize with one kilometre to go.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a thrilling sprint finish 23 year-old Lelisa Desisa took the honours and established himself in 13th position in the world alltime list. Another Ethiopian debutant Andualem Belay Shiferaw took second with 2:04:48, followed by his fellow countrymen Tadesse Tola (2:04:49) and Endeshaw Negesse (2:04:52). Running his debut Kenya\u2019s Bernard Koech finished fifth with 2:04:53.<\/p>\n<p>In good running conditions \u2013 due to fog it did not get too warm in the final part of the race \u2013 Ethiopia\u2019s runners completed a total triumph, taking the first three places in the women\u2019s race as well. 28 year-old Tirfi Tsegaye secured the 200,000 Dollar prize with a time of 2:23:23. Ehitu Kiros was second in 2:23:39, followed by Amane Gobena (2:23:50).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lelisa Desisa wins Dubai as five men break 2:05 Running his debut Ethiopia\u2019s Lelisa Desisa won the 14th Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon with a world-class time of 2:04:45. In a tight finish, five men broke 2:05 for the first time in marathon history. All five were still in contention for victory and the 200,000 US [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":173,"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":[102,27,7,28,1],"tags":[104,103,227,105],"class_list":["post-172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ethiopia","category-events","category-featured","category-marathon","category-news","tag-104","tag-dubai-marathon","tag-ethiopia","tag-lelisa-desisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172","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=172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/gn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}