{"id":390,"date":"2019-07-21T15:34:56","date_gmt":"2019-07-21T15:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/?p=390"},"modified":"2019-07-21T15:34:57","modified_gmt":"2019-07-21T15:34:57","slug":"hagos-holds-off-ingebrigtsen-in-hot-5000m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/?p=390","title":{"rendered":"Hagos holds off Ingebrigtsen in hot 5000m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There was plenty of solid action off of the Diamond League progamme.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s been a good week for Hagos Gebrhiwet. On Wednesday the  25-<g class=\"gr_ gr_4 gr-alert gr_spell gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim ContextualSpelling ins-del multiReplace\" id=\"4\" data-gr-id=\"4\">year-old<\/g> Ethiopian clocked a world-leading 26:48.95 to take a  competitive 10,000m race in Hengelo and today out-kicked Jakob  Ingebrigtsen over a sizzling last-lap battle to win the 5000m here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10km phenom Rhonex Kipruto, running in his debut over the shorter \ndistance, took command as the field passed the 3000m point, and led \nuntil the penultimate lap, when Ingebrigtsen, the European champion, \ntook the lead with just over 500 metres to go. The Norwegian teenager \ntried to build a small gap with the move, but Gebrhiwet reacted quickly \nto stay in contact. The Ethiopian then made his bid with 250 metres \nremaining and while he couldn\u2019t quite shake Ingebrigtsen, he did hold \nhim for the 13:01.86 win. Ingebrigtsen clocked a national record \n13:02.03 in second.&nbsp;<\/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-9709-57bdda3a59c1-4.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-391\" srcset=\"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><figcaption><em>Jakob Ingebrigtsen and Hagos Gebrhiwet battle in London (Kirby Lee) \u00a9 Copyright<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nicholas Kimeli of Kenya was third in 13:05.48 with Australian Stewart McSweyn next in 13:05.63<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the long jump, world champion Luvo Manyonga improved his season&#8217;s \nbest to 8.37m in the fifth round to eek out a victory ahead of Jamaican \nTajay Gayle, who reached an 8.32m lifetime best in round three.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;I was a little scared and I was holding back to start,&#8221; said \nManyonga, who added two centimetres to his 2019 best. &#8220;At the beginning I\n need to test my ankle as I was not sure my ankle could handle it but, I\n said to myself, &#8216;just jump because this is where I was crowned world \nchampion&#8217;.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Olympic champion and 2019 world leader at 22.00 Elaine Thompson was a\n convincing winner in the 200m, clocking 22.13. Marie-Josee Ta Lou was \nsecond in 22.36, a season&#8217;s best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And finally, Jamaican Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce made up a 15-metre  deficit to anchor a Jamaican quartet to a 42.29 victory in the 4&#215;100  relay, to edge a British squad by a scant 0.01.<\/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>There was plenty of solid action off of the Diamond League progamme.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s been a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":391,"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":[87,28,36],"class_list":["post-390","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-5000m","tag-athletics","tag-diamond-league"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/c16daf6d-4348-41af-9709-57bdda3a59c1-4.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390","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=390"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":392,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390\/revisions\/392"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athleticdb.tv\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}