{"id":2017,"date":"2026-03-10T07:42:25","date_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:42:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/?p=2017"},"modified":"2026-03-10T07:42:25","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T07:42:25","slug":"los-angeles-marathon-on-michael-kimani-kamau-wrong-turn-not-winnercmpidrss-syndicate-genericrss-us-top_stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/?p=2017","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Marathon on Michael Kimani Kamau Wrong Turn, Not Winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"segment-text-only\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The L.A. Marathon also congratulated all the podium finishers of the race\u2014which included <\/span><strong>Enyew<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> <\/span><strong>Nigat<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, who came in third on the Men\u2019s Pro Podium, and <\/span><strong>Priscah<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\"> <\/span><strong>Cherono<\/strong><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, who was the first place winner for the\u00a0 Women\u2019s Pro Podium\u2014and thanked the over 27,000 runners who participated in the event.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">While Kamau has yet to publicly comment <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">on being named runner-up<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">, winner Martin was in shock he was able to come in first place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">&#8220;A mile to go, I started seeing the pace car and the lead guy, and said, &#8216;Well maybe, we&#8217;ll see what happens,'&#8221; he told <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/sports\/live-updates-2026-los-angeles-marathon\/3857479\/?cardId=1:9:3858616\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">NBC News<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. &#8220;And then 800 to go, I&#8217;m like, &#8216;All right, I have to go for it, I have to at least try,&#8217; and things kind of worked out.<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">For a look at some of your favorite stars who have run the marathon, keep reading.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The L.A. Marathon also congratulated all the podium finishers of the race\u2014which included Enyew Nigat, who came in third on the Men\u2019s Pro Podium, and Priscah Cherono, who was the first place winner for the\u00a0 Women\u2019s Pro Podium\u2014and thanked the over 27,000 runners who participated in the event.\u00a0 While Kamau has yet to publicly comment<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[189,405,3,167,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","category-entertainment","category-lifestyle","category-netflix","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/owspakistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}