{"id":70405,"date":"2015-04-20T11:16:15","date_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70405"},"modified":"2015-04-20T11:43:02","modified_gmt":"2015-04-20T16:43:02","slug":"desisa-wins-mens-bost-marathon-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=70405","title":{"rendered":"Desisa wins men&#8217;s Bost. Marathon race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Desisalelisa.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-70406\" alt=\"Desisalelisa\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Desisalelisa-149x300.jpg\" width=\"149\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Desisalelisa-149x300.jpg 149w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Desisalelisa-87x175.jpg 87w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Desisalelisa.jpg 180w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 149px) 100vw, 149px\" \/><\/a>BOSTON (AP) &#8211; Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia has won the 119th Boston Marathon in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 17 seconds.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s his second victory here. He also won the 2013 race just hours before a pair of bombs exploded at the finish line. Desisa returned after the attacks to donate his medal to the city in memory of the victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Countryman Yemane Adhane Tsegay was second in 2:09:48, and Wilson Chebet of Kenya took third in 2:10:22. Dathan Ritzenhein was seventh overall and the first American in an unofficial 2:11:20, followed by last year&#8217;s winner, Meb Keflezighi, in 2:12:42.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Caroline Rotich (ROW-tish) won the women&#8217;s race in an unofficial 2:24:55. It&#8217;s the first Boston victory for the 30-year-old Kenyan. She finished fourth here in 2011.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Two years after the bombs killed three and wounded 260 more, the world&#8217;s most prestigious marathon took a tentative step back toward normal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0BOSTON (AP) &#8211; Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia has won the 119th Boston Marathon in an unofficial time of 2 hours, 9 minutes, 17 seconds. \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 It&#8217;s his second victory here. He also won the 2013 race just hours before a pair of bombs exploded at the finish line. Desisa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":70411,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=70405"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":70418,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70405\/revisions\/70418"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70411"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}