{"id":386,"date":"2019-07-21T14:34:43","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T14:34:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/?p=386"},"modified":"2019-07-21T14:39:14","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T14:39:14","slug":"akani-takes-100m-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/?p=386","title":{"rendered":"Akani takes 100m showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"\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-9709-57bdda3a59c1-3.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-3-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><em>Akani Simbine (2nd from right) wins the London Diamond League 100m (Kirby Lee) \u00a9 Copyright<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>African champion Akani Simbine notched his first Diamond League win \nof the season, holding off Briton Zharnel Hughes 9.95 to 9.97, season\u2019s \nbests for both. In a blanket finish, just 0.02 separated the next three \nacross the line, with 2009 world champion Yohan Blake third in 9.97, \nahead of Japan\u2019s Yuki Koiek (9.98) and Canada\u2019s Andre De Grasse (9.99), a\n personal best for the former and season\u2019s best for the latter.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rounding out the sprints, Jamaican champion Shericka Jackson held off compatriot Stephanie Ann McPherson to take the 400m, 50.69 to 50.74, to take her first Diamond League win of the season. Briton Laviai Nielsen clocked a 50.83 personal best to finish third.<\/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>African champion Akani Simbine notched his first Diamond League win of the season, holding off&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":387,"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":[86,28,36],"class_list":["post-386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-100m","tag-athletics","tag-diamond-league"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-3.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386","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=386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":389,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/386\/revisions\/389"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}