{"id":2094,"date":"2018-01-16T10:48:40","date_gmt":"2018-01-16T10:48:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/?p=2094"},"modified":"2018-01-16T10:48:40","modified_gmt":"2018-01-16T10:48:40","slug":"swiss-silver-bullet-hug-to-lead-powerful-marathon-wheelchair-field-in-dubai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/swiss-silver-bullet-hug-to-lead-powerful-marathon-wheelchair-field-in-dubai\/","title":{"rendered":"Swiss &#8216;Silver Bullet&#8217; Hug To Lead Powerful Marathon Wheelchair Field In Dubai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Rafa Botello of Spain will face a world-class field of racers including nine-time world champion and double Paralympic gold medalist Marcel Hug of Switzerland when the most talented line-up in the event&#8217;s history takes to the course for the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on January 26.<\/p>\n<p>The Spaniard took victory by just three seconds (1h:31m:19s) from Irish rival Patrick Monahan last year in Dubai and both men return to clash again next week. But they know they also face a monumental battle with the likes of Hug, Japan&#8217;s Hiroyuki Yamamoto and ten-times Boston Marathon winner Ernst Van Dyk of South Africa also in the world-class line-up.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2095\" src=\"http:\/\/middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/F-200x300.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/F-200x300.jpeg 200w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/F-768x1151.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/F-683x1024.jpeg 683w, https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/F.jpeg 854w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Defending champion Rafa Botello of Spain will face a world-class field of racers including nine-time world champion and double Paralympic gold medalist Marcel Hug of Switzerland when the most talented line-up in the event&#8217;s history takes to the course for the Standard Chartered Dubai Marathon on January 26. The Spaniard took victory by just three [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2094","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2094"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2096,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2094\/revisions\/2096"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2095"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2094"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2094"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.middleeastevents.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2094"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}