{"id":383,"date":"2019-07-21T14:23:58","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T14:23:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/?p=383"},"modified":"2019-07-21T14:23:59","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T14:23:59","slug":"middle-distance-wins-for-muir-and-rotich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/?p=383","title":{"rendered":"Middle distance wins for Muir and Rotich"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Closing with an impressive 57.3 final lap, Laura Muir took the women\u2019s 1500m in 3:58.25 to collect her second Diamond League win of the season.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-384\" srcset=\"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-2-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><em>Laura Muir takes another 1500m win in London (Kirby Lee) \u00a9 Copyright<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The Scot was running about even with Moroccan Rababe Arafi and \nKonstanze Klosterhalfen at the bell before taking the lead as she \nentered the backstretch. While Arafi soon dropped off the pace, the \nGerman was in hot pursuit until midway through the home straight, \neventually fading to fifth. Keyan Winny Chebet closed well to finish \nsecond in 3:59.93, as did Gabriela Debues-Stafford, whose 4:00.26 in \nthird was a Canadian national record.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ferguson Rotich took command of the Diamond League 800m standings \nwith a decisive 1:43.14 victory. The Kenyan took the lead with just over\n 100 metres remaining, holding off his quick finishing compatriot \nWyclife Kinyamal, who clocked 1:43.48. It was the third fastest career \nperformance for Rotich, a 2016 Olympic finalist, and a season\u2019s best for\n Kinyamal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>An anticipated battle between world leader Nijel Amos of Botswana and  Emmanuel Korir, last year\u2019s top 800m runner, never materialised. Amos pulled up less than 200 metres into the race, clutching his right hamstring before falling to the track while Korir, still feeling the effects of a serious automobile accident he was involved in three weeks ago, was never in the hunt, finishing a distant eighth in 1:44.75.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iaaf.org\/news\/report\/williams-warholm-london-iaaf-diamond-league\">IAAF<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Closing with an impressive 57.3 final lap, Laura Muir took the women&rsquo;s 1500m in 3:58.25&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":384,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_ppp_document_settings_meta":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[85,28,36],"class_list":["post-383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-800m","tag-athletics","tag-diamond-league"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-2.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=383"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":385,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/383\/revisions\/385"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/384"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}