{"id":698,"date":"2025-02-19T10:35:08","date_gmt":"2025-02-19T10:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/?p=698"},"modified":"2025-02-25T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-25T09:44:54","slug":"australian-marathon-joins-ranks-of-worlds-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/australian-marathon-joins-ranks-of-worlds-best\/","title":{"rendered":"Australian marathon joins ranks of world\u2019s best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg\">The Sydney Marathon was confirmed as the seventh member of the Abbott World Marathon Majors in New York on Monday, culminating a three-year program to improve the event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg\">It joins Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York as marathon majors, drawing both the world\u2019s fastest athletes and tens of thousands of destination runners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg\">\u201cThis is an extraordinary achievement for Sydney and a transformative moment for Australian athletics,\u201d Athletics Australia president Jane Flemming said on Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg\">\u201cThe Abbott World Marathon Majors represents the very best in marathon running, and to have Sydney join this elite group is a testament to the dedication, passion and expertise of everyone involved.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg\">\u201cBut it is an achievement that will inspire countless Australians to take up running.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 font-serif text-lg sm:text-lg\">The Sydney Marathon is a legacy of the 2000 Olympics and was first held as a test event five months out from the Games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Sydney Marathon was confirmed as the seventh member of the Abbott World Marathon Majors in New York on Monday, culminating a three-year program to improve the event. It joins Tokyo, Boston, London, Berlin, Chicago and New York as marathon majors, drawing both the world\u2019s fastest athletes and tens of thousands of destination runners. \u201cThis [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[19,49],"class_list":["post-698","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-featured","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=698"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":699,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/698\/revisions\/699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=698"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=698"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/futuredesignteam.in\/client\/politicus\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=698"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}