{"id":53608,"date":"2025-04-27T13:06:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/eilish-mccolgan-sets-new-scottish-marathon-record-in-london-surpasses-mother-lizs-pb\/"},"modified":"2025-04-27T13:06:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-27T13:06:53","slug":"eilish-mccolgan-sets-new-scottish-marathon-record-in-london-surpasses-mother-lizs-pb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/eilish-mccolgan-sets-new-scottish-marathon-record-in-london-surpasses-mother-lizs-pb\/","title":{"rendered":"Eilish McColgan sets new Scottish marathon record in London, surpasses mother Liz&#8217;s PB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Eilish McColgan has set a new Scottish marathon record after also surpassing her mother&#8217;s best time at the London Marathon.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">McColgan, 34, finished eighth, crossing the line in 02:24:25, which beat Steph Twell&#8217;s mark of 2:26:40 set in Frankfurt in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Liz McColgan ran London in 2:26:52 in 1997.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The younger McColgan had said last week she was primarily aiming to complete her marathon debut with &#8220;no mishaps&#8221; but admitted to having a couple of &#8220;loose goals&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She has won silver and bronze medals at European level over 3,000m, 5,000m and 10,000m and won 10,000m gold and 5,000m silver at the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain&#8217;s Rose Harvey finished just behind McColgan in ninth as Tigst Assefa set a new women&#8217;s-only world record of 2:15:50 to win the annual event.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c1wd2y25jgro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eilish McColgan has set a new Scottish marathon record after also surpassing her mother&#8217;s best time at the London Marathon. McColgan, 34, finished eighth, crossing the line in 02:24:25, which beat Steph Twell&#8217;s mark of 2:26:40 set in Frankfurt in 2019. Liz McColgan ran London in 2:26:52 in 1997. The younger McColgan had said last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":53609,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[49],"tags":[1512,16994,141,4163,1513,323,1009,1498,4639,16993],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53610,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53608\/revisions\/53610"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}