{"id":246,"date":"2021-02-11T07:58:35","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T07:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/news\/afnews\/gidey-and-cheptegei-break-world-records-in-valencia"},"modified":"2021-02-11T07:58:35","modified_gmt":"2021-02-11T07:58:35","slug":"gidey-and-cheptegei-break-world-records-in-valencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/news\/afnews\/gidey-and-cheptegei-break-world-records-in-valencia","title":{"rendered":"Gidey and Cheptegei break world records in Valencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Cheptegei and Letesenbet Gidey smashed world records* over 10,000m and 5000m respectively at the aptly named NN Valencia World Record Day on Wednesday (7). Gidey\u2019s winning time of 14:06.62 took almost five seconds off the previous world 5000m record, set by fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba in Oslo in 2008. Cheptegei, meanwhile, covered 10,000m in [&#8230;]<br \/>\n<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/news\/gidey-and-cheptegei-break-world-records-in-valencia\">Time-to-Run Track<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Cheptegei and Letesenbet Gidey smashed world records* over 10,000m and 5000m respectively at the aptly named NN Valencia World Record Day on Wednesday (7). Gidey\u2019s winning time of 14:06.62 took almost five seconds off the previous world 5000m record, set by fellow Ethiopian Tirunesh Dibaba in Oslo in 2008. Cheptegei, meanwhile, covered 10,000m in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}