{"id":143094,"date":"2026-06-04T14:02:53","date_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:02:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/boston-marathon-champion-korir-to-headline-nairobi-marathon-entry\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T14:02:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-04T14:02:53","slug":"boston-marathon-champion-korir-to-headline-nairobi-marathon-entry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/boston-marathon-champion-korir-to-headline-nairobi-marathon-entry\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Marathon Champion Korir to \u00a0headline Nairobi Marathon entry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Reigning Boston Marathon champion John Korir and 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist Margaret\u00a0 Wangare Muriuki are among the 1,750 elite athletes who have confirmed their participation in the 42 km race during the 5th Nairobi City Marathon set for this Sunday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Korir, who broke the Boston Marathon course record in April, will be keen to extend his local dominance, having also won the Sirikwa Classic cross-country in February.<\/p>\n<p>The race, which will start outside City Hall and end at Uhuru Park, will consist of the 42 km,21 km,10 km, and 5 km race categories.<\/p>\n<p>Several roads in the Central Business District , highways, and expressway will be closed between 12 am on Sunday and 2 pm to pave the way for the annual race, with police assuring security for all the participants.<\/p>\n<p>Winners of the marathon race will pocket KSh 3.5 million, while the 2nd and 3rd placed athletes will walk home with KSh 2.25 and 1.5 million, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/boston-marathon-champion-korir-to-headline-nairobi-marathon-entry\/\">Boston Marathon Champion Korir to \u00a0headline Nairobi Marathon entry<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kbc.co.ke\/\">KBC Digital<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reigning Boston Marathon champion John Korir and 2022 Commonwealth Games silver medalist Margaret\u00a0 Wangare Muriuki are among the 1,750 elite athletes who have confirmed their participation in the 42 km race during the 5th Nairobi City Marathon set for this Sunday. Korir, who broke the Boston Marathon course record in April, will be keen to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-143094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=143094"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/143094\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=143094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=143094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=143094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}