{"id":340,"date":"2019-09-17T10:18:36","date_gmt":"2019-09-17T10:18:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/?p=340"},"modified":"2026-04-08T09:05:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T09:05:40","slug":"interview-with-geoffrey-kamworor-after-wr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/news\/interview-with-geoffrey-kamworor-after-wr","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Geoffrey Kamworor after WR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K7tm-YiVioI?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Denmark &#8211; Interview with Geoffrey Kamworor after his World Record in Copenhagen Half Marathon on Sunday 15th September 2019<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Geoffrey Kamworor took 17 seconds off the world record at the Copenhagen Half Marathon on Sunday (15), winning the <strong>IAAF Gold Label<\/strong> road race in 58:01*.<\/p>\n<p><strong>World half marathon record progression<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Twenty-five years have passed since the first sub-60-minute half marathon. Just two seconds now stand in the way of history\u2019s first sub-58-minute performance.<\/p>\n<p>59:47 Moses Tanui (KEN) Milan 3 April 1993<br \/>\n59:17 Paul Tergat (KEN) Milan 4 April 1998<br \/>\n59:16 Samuel Wanjiru (KEN) Rotterdam 11 September 2005<br \/>\n58:55 Haile Gebrselassie (ETH) Tempe 15 January 2006<br \/>\n58:33 Samuel Wanjiru (KEN) The Hague 17 March 2007<br \/>\n58:23 Zersenay Tadese (ERI) Lisbon 21 March 2010<br \/>\n58:18 Abraham Kiptum (KEN) Valencia 28 October 2018<br \/>\n58:01 Geoffrey Kamworor (KEN) Copenhagen 15 September 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Denmark &#8211; Interview with Geoffrey Kamworor after his World Record in Copenhagen Half Marathon on Sunday 15th September 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[45,59,9,60],"tags":[51,56,62,61],"class_list":["post-340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-half","category-interview","category-news","category-video","tag-51","tag-geoffrey-kamworor","tag-interview","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p83l8O-5u","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=340"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":342,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/340\/revisions\/342"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/marathon\/copenhagen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}