{"id":21839,"date":"2013-05-13T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-05-13T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2013\/05\/13\/murray-takes-5th-at-the-itu-world-triathlon-series-in-yokohama-r668\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T12:31:13","slug":"murray-takes-5th-at-the-itu-world-triathlon-series-in-yokohama-r668","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/murray-takes-5th-at-the-itu-world-triathlon-series-in-yokohama-r668\/","title":{"rendered":"Murray takes 5th at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Yokohama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the second fastest run split on the day South Africa\u2019s Richard Murray managed to get a top 5 placing at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Yokohama, Japan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color:#696969\"><span style=\"font-size:12px\">Photo credit: Delly Carr, ITU Media <\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This was a great result for Murray after battling up the field from 20<sup>th<\/sup> place. Brit Jonathan Brownlee won the race in 1 hour, 44 minutes and 59 seconds. His time of 29 minutes, 21 seconds for the 10km was the fastest on the day. Javier Gomez (1:45.23) and Joao Silva (1:46.16) rounded off the winner\u2019s podium.<\/p>\n<p>Murray\u2019s time was 1:47.23 and 29.39 for the 10km. This fast run was despite twisting his ankle in training leading up to the race. His fellow South African Henri Schoeman (1:47.26) finished sixth. Schoeman was with the front-runners the whole day until the run. It was Schoeman\u2019s best performance ever in a World Series race.<\/p>\n<p>Murray got out of the water 50 seconds behind Brownlee and company. He started the run some 2 minutes behind and in 20<sup>th<\/sup> place.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had some great fun today. From 20<sup>th<\/sup> to 5<sup>th<\/sup> took some effort. I felt really good during the run and managed to run one of my best times ever. I felt pretty happy with my swim, but I still was almost a minute behind. The bike leg was really hard and missing the strong cycling bunch cost me big time. I gave everything I had on the run though and I am happy with the way it turned out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kate Roberts and Gillian Sanders rounded off a great weekend for South African triathlon by finishing seventh and 12<sup>th<\/sup> respectively in the women\u2019s race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks to the second fastest run split on the day South Africa\u2019s Richard Murray managed to get a top 5 placing at the ITU World Triathlon Series in Yokohama, Japan on Saturday. Photo credit: Delly Carr, ITU Media This was a great result for Murray after battling up the field from 20th place. Brit Jonathan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-21839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21839","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21839"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=21839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}