{"id":36269,"date":"2025-12-08T00:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/alex-yee-runs-second-fastest-marathon-by-briton-in-valencia\/"},"modified":"2025-12-08T00:58:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T00:58:02","slug":"alex-yee-runs-second-fastest-marathon-by-briton-in-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/alex-yee-runs-second-fastest-marathon-by-briton-in-valencia\/","title":{"rendered":"Alex Yee runs second fastest marathon by Briton in Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee ran the second fastest marathon by a Briton in only his second competitive race at the distance.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 27-year-old, who won <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/olympics\/articles\/cd16dqg12deo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">triathlon gold<\/a> at Paris 2024 and the world title later in the year, finished seventh at the Valencia Marathon in two hours six minutes 38 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Only four-time Olympic champion Mo Farah has run quicker than Yee, with a time of 2:05:11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Emile Cairess, who is now third on the all-time list with 2:06:46, paced Yee for about 21 of the 26.2 miles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Kenya&#8217;s John Korir won in 2:02:24, with Germany&#8217;s Amanal Petros 1min 39secs behind in second and Norway&#8217;s Awet Kibrab a further 21 seconds back in third.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/articles\/c075pm7d9xvo?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic triathlon champion Alex Yee ran the second fastest marathon by a Briton in only his second competitive race at the distance. The 27-year-old, who won triathlon gold at Paris 2024 and the world title later in the year, finished seventh at the Valencia Marathon in two hours six minutes 38 seconds. Only four-time Olympic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":36270,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36269"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36269"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36269\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36271,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36269\/revisions\/36271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36270"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36269"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36269"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36269"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}