{"id":13367,"date":"2026-09-10T00:50:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-10T04:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13367"},"modified":"2025-12-16T22:34:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T03:34:02","slug":"abebe-bikila-won-the-1960-olympics-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13367","title":{"rendered":"Abebe Bikila Won the 1960 Olympics Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_13369\" style=\"width: 262px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13369\" class=\"wp-image-13369\" src=\"http:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/09\/Abebe-Bikila-300x256.jpg\" alt=\"Abebe Bikila\" width=\"252\" height=\"215\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-13369\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Abebe Bikila<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Abebe Bikila won the 1960 Olympics Marathon<\/strong>. The Ethiopian ran the marathon barefoot. A last minute replacement for another marathoner, Bikila had little time to prepare for the race, including finding suitable running shoes. He decided to run without shoes. His time was 2 hours 15 minutes 16.2 seconds, a new record. He also won the 1964 Tokyo Olympics marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Abebe Bikila won the 1960 Olympics Marathon. The Ethiopian ran the marathon barefoot. A last minute replacement for another marathoner, Bikila had little time to prepare for the race, including finding suitable running shoes. He decided to run without shoes. His time was 2 hours 15 minutes 16.2 seconds, a new record. He also won <a href='https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/?p=13367' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[4705,1522,1524,1521,5851,5771],"class_list":["post-13367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","tag-4705","tag-1960-olympics","tag-1964-tokyo-olympics-marathon","tag-abebe-bikila","tag-marathon","tag-september-10","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13367"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29709,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13367\/revisions\/29709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.celebrateandlearn.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}