{"id":600,"date":"2020-02-28T09:09:21","date_gmt":"2020-02-28T09:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v2.rhodesmarathon.gr\/2020\/02\/28\/roads-to-rhodes-marathon-2020-has-been-confirmed-as-a-qualifying-race-for-the-abbott-world-marathon-majors-wanda-age-group-world-championships-in-2021\/"},"modified":"2024-03-22T12:18:15","modified_gmt":"2024-03-22T12:18:15","slug":"roads-to-rhodes-marathon-2020-has-been-confirmed-as-a-qualifying-race-for-the-abbott-world-marathon-majors-wanda-age-group-world-championships-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/2020\/02\/28\/roads-to-rhodes-marathon-2020-has-been-confirmed-as-a-qualifying-race-for-the-abbott-world-marathon-majors-wanda-age-group-world-championships-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Roads to Rhodes Marathon 2020 has been confirmed as a qualifying race for the Abbott World Marathon Majors Wanda Age Group World Championships in 2021."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><strong>Roads to Rhodes Marathon 2020 has been confirmed as a qualifying race for the Abbott World Marathon Majors Wanda Age Group World Championships in 2021.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>International Roads to Rhodes Marathon<\/strong> \u00a0is now an official member of the Elite of the Marathon Games that make up the\u00a0<strong>Abbott World Marathon Majors Wanda Age Group World Ranking Qualifying Series<\/strong>, the world's first age-appropriate marathon ranking system.<\/p>\n<p> The Rhodes Marathon taking place on <strong>May\u00a0<\/strong><strong>3\u00a02020<\/strong> will be the only race in Greece that is a member of this global elite race offering points to runners for world rankings and participation in the 2021 finals!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Participants in the\u00a0<strong>Abbott WMM Wanda Age Group World Ranking Qualifying Series<\/strong>such as\u00a0<strong>the Rhodes Marathon<\/strong>, will\u00a0<strong>earn\u00a0<\/strong>points according to their age, time and gender, based on the following age groups for men and women: 40-44, 45-49, 50-54, 55-59, 60-64, 65-69, 70-74, 75-79, 80+.<\/p>\n<p> Based on this ranking, the top runners from around the world will qualify for the second\u00a0<strong>Abbott WMM Wanda Age Group World Championships<\/strong>The run began on September 30 2019 and will end on October 11 2020.<\/p>\n<p> The geographical spread of selected marathon races that form part of the\u00a0<strong>Abbott WMM Wanda Age Group World Rankings\u00a0<\/strong>creates a global event, giving racers around the world the opportunity to be part of the new marathon era.<\/p>\n<p> Thus, the\u00a0<strong>7th Rhodes Marathon,\u00a0<\/strong>which will take place on\u00a0<strong>May 3 2020, will,\u00a0<\/strong>besides all the other benefits, offer many points to runners aged 40 and over to qualify for the World Finals.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roads to Rhodes Marathon 2020 has been confirmed as a qualifying race for the Abbott World Marathon Majors Wanda Age Group World Championships in 2021. \u00a0<span class=\"excerpt-hellip\"> [...]<\/span><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pgc_sgb_lightbox_settings":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-600","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=600"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3586,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/600\/revisions\/3586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=600"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=600"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhodesmarathon.gr\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=600"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}