{"id":218,"date":"2015-06-17T07:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-06-17T07:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/?p=218"},"modified":"2015-06-17T07:25:15","modified_gmt":"2015-06-17T07:25:15","slug":"ron-clarke-dies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/news\/ron-clarke-dies","title":{"rendered":"Ron Clarke dies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ron.clarke.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-220\" title=\"ron clarke\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ron.clarke.jpg\" alt=\"ron clarke\" width=\"580\" height=\"327\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ron.clarke.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ron.clarke-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>17th June 2015 . Ron Clarke has died. Considered Australia&#8217;s greatest ever middle-distance runner, Ron Clarke, will be remembered as one of the best athletes in the world for many years.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Clarke, AO, MBE, passed away due to kidney failure at the Allamanda hospital on the Gold Coast.<\/p>\n<p>During his career he set 17 world records which included 12 during a remarkable 44-day tour of Europe in 1965, nine years after he had been invited as a 19-year-old to light the Olympic flame at the 1956 Melbourne Olympics.<\/p>\n<h6><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ron-clarke-torch.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-219\" title=\"ron clarke torch\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ron-clarke-torch.jpg\" alt=\"ron clarke torch\" width=\"580\" height=\"418\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ron-clarke-torch.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/ron-clarke-torch-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><em>Images for Editorial Purposes only<\/em><\/h6>\n<p>Clarke won the bronze medal at the 1964 Olympics in Tokyo, in the 10,000-metre event.Sadly, he never won an Olympic gold.<\/p>\n<p>After his athletics career, he was Gold Coast mayor from 2004 to 2012, but was unsuccessful in a bid for state politics.<\/p>\n<p>He had been awarded the Order of Australia and honoured as a Member of the British Empire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17th June 2015 . Ron Clarke has died. Considered Australia&#8217;s greatest ever middle-distance runner, Ron Clarke, will be remembered as one of the best athletes in the world for many years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":220,"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":[8,1,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218\/revisions\/222"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}