{"id":1025,"date":"2014-06-03T14:35:10","date_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/?p=1025"},"modified":"2014-06-03T14:35:10","modified_gmt":"2014-06-03T14:35:10","slug":"sam-wreford-wins-christchurch-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/news\/sam-wreford-wins-christchurch-marathon","title":{"rendered":"Sam Wreford wins Christchurch Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_613\" style=\"width: 580px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wreford.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-613\" class=\"wp-image-613\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wreford.jpg?resize=570%2C242\" alt=\"Sam Wreford wins Christchurch Marathon\" width=\"570\" height=\"242\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wreford.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wreford.jpg?resize=300%2C127&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 570px) 100vw, 570px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-613\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Wreford wins Christchurch Marathon<\/p><\/div>\n<p>CHRISTCHURCH \u2013 1 June 2014<\/p>\n<p>Despite the bitterly cold conditions Sam Wreford clipped seven seconds off his career best time in winning the Christchurch marathon in 2:16:28 on Sunday. <!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Christchurch Airport Marathon and Half Marathon<\/h3>\n<p>The 31 year old from Timaru led throughout and won by a wide margin of ten minutes over Takapuna\u2019s Stephen Lett (2:26:35). Former national marathon champion Tony Payne from Auckland was third in 2:27:16 with Gavin Stevens fourth in 2:37:34. Wreford said that the ice on the road cost him about a minute and the chance of breaking Tom Birnie\u2019s 1985 race record of 2:15:12. Wreford\u2019s previous best time was set in Invercargill in November 2012.<\/p>\n<p>Texas based Aucklander Liza Hunter-Galvan won the women\u2019s marathon for the fifth time. The 44 year old clocked 2:43:40. The Otago pair of Victoria Beck 2:46:16 PB and Mel Aitken 2:56:55 PB were next to finish.<\/p>\n<p>Callan Moody of Canterbury had a great battle with Auckland\u2019s Malcolm Hicks in the half marathon. Moody winning in 1:06:06 PB, 80 metres ahead of Hicks who ran 1:06:19 and Nathan Baxter 1:06:28. Aaron Pulford was fourth in 1:06:45. Gabrielle O\u2019Rourke of Wellington won the women\u2019s half marathon heading in Canterbury\u2019s Alex Williams by 15 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Matt Harris took out the 10km in 30:44 in a close finish with Peter Meffan 30:49 and Brett Smith 30:52. Rachel Kingsford won the women\u2019s 10km in 34:52 followed by Flora Brocherie 35:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CHRISTCHURCH \u2013 1 June 2014 Despite the bitterly cold conditions Sam Wreford clipped seven seconds off his career best time in winning the Christchurch marathon in 2:16:28 on Sunday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8,1],"tags":[323,341,340],"class_list":["post-1025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-christchurch","category-featured","category-news","tag-323","tag-christchurch-marathon","tag-sam-wreford"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/Wreford.jpg?fit=590%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1025\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}