{"id":160738,"date":"2025-09-22T05:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:15:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160738\/"},"modified":"2025-09-22T05:15:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-22T05:15:06","slug":"harry-styles-swaps-microphone-for-trainers-to-run-sub-three-hour-berlin-marathon-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/160738\/","title":{"rendered":"Harry Styles swaps microphone for trainers to run sub-three hour Berlin marathon | Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">English singer and songwriter <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/harry-styles\" data-link-name=\"in body link\" data-component=\"auto-linked-tag\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Harry Styles<\/a> ran the Berlin Marathon in under three hours on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The 31-year-old former member of One Direction was among some 55,000 runners taking part in the race on what is widely regarded as the fastest marathon track in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Styles \u2013 reportedly using the pseudonym Sted Sarandos and wearing a headband and sunglasses \u2013 completed the route in 2 hours, 59 minutes, 13 seconds. A sub-three hour marathon is a coveted mark for many marathon runners.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Der Tagesspiegel reported that Styles was already spotted running in Berlin in preparation for Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Styles was in a photo at the finish with Richard Whitehead, a two-time gold medal winner over 200 meters at the Paralympic Games. Whitehead, who is on a quest to run 20 marathons this year, posted the photo on Instagram.<\/p>\n<p>Allow Instagram content?<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-j4jr8l\">This article includes content provided by Instagram. We ask for your permission before anything is loaded, as they may be using cookies and other technologies. To view this content, click &#8216;Allow and continue&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">The winning runner, Kenya\u2019s Sabastian Sawe, clocked at 2:02:16.<\/p>\n<p class=\"dcr-130mj7b\">Styles\u2019 eponymous debut album, Harry Styles, topped the album charts in the US, Britain and several other countries, while the second, Fine Line, appeared in 2019 and included the Grammy-winning Watermelon Sugar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"English singer and songwriter Harry Styles ran the Berlin Marathon in under three hours on Sunday. The 31-year-old&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":160739,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[49,48,361,75],"class_list":{"0":"post-160738","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-celebrities","11":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160738","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160738"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160738\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160739"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160738"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160738"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160738"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}