{"id":244431,"date":"2026-01-18T08:13:13","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244431\/"},"modified":"2026-01-18T08:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T08:13:13","slug":"belachew-eshete-claim-standard-chartered-hong-kong-marathon-crowns-as-it-happened","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/244431\/","title":{"rendered":"Belachew, Eshete claim Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon crowns &#8211; as it happened"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting SCMP\u2019s journalism by <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" class=\"e1yy41x40 ef9u0v01 css-1ankfgb ecgc78b0\" href=\"https:\/\/subscribe.scmp.com\/?module=inline&amp;pgtype=article&amp;campaign=rosetta_free_article\" title=\"\" data-qa=\"BaseLink-renderAnchor-StyledAnchor\">subscribing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Melaku Belachew claimed his second men\u2019s title, Shitaye Eshete won the women\u2019s race and came close to the course record, and Hong Kong triathlete Wong Tsz-to ensured there was home gold on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">On a day when conditions were not conducive to fast times, some 74,000 runners still took to the streets for the city\u2019s biggest race day of the year.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">And while there were very few KPop Demon Hunters in evidence, costumes added some sparkle to proceedings.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">It was Standard Chartered Marathon day in Hong Kong, and as usual, it proved to be a busy morning across the city.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">More from our reporting:<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Reporting by Mike Chan, Paul McNamara, Stephy Zhang and Ada Li.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This live blog has been made freely available as a public service to our readers. Please consider supporting&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":244432,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[131225,86429,131231,131227,3448,131226,85,46,1729,131228,131222,131221,131224,14857,105,131223,131229,131230],"class_list":{"0":"post-244431","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-ada-li","9":"tag-asian-games","10":"tag-bethwell-kipkemboi","11":"tag-han-il-ryong","12":"tag-hong-kong","13":"tag-hong-kong-marathon","14":"tag-il","15":"tag-israel","16":"tag-kpop-demon-hunters","17":"tag-mekuant-ayenew","18":"tag-mike-chan","19":"tag-north-korean","20":"tag-paul-mcnamara","21":"tag-scmp","22":"tag-sports","23":"tag-standard-chartered-marathon","24":"tag-stephy-zhang","25":"tag-taipei-charity-marathon"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244431\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/244432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}