{"id":160,"date":"2011-10-26T18:51:01","date_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/?p=160"},"modified":"2011-10-26T18:56:57","modified_gmt":"2011-10-26T18:56:57","slug":"armstrong-wins-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/news\/armstrong-wins-gold.htm","title":{"rendered":"Armstrong wins gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/armstrong.590.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-161\" title=\"armstrong.590\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/armstrong.590.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"590\" height=\"250\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/armstrong.590.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/armstrong.590-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>GUADALAJARA &#8211; Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops, B.C., capped off a season for the ages with Canada\u2019s first athletics (track and field) gold medal at the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.\u00a0 Dylan\u2019s fifth throw in the men\u2019s shot put of 21.30 metres established a new Pan American Games record and secured gold. \u201cDefinitely a good feeling and a great way to cap off the season\u201d said a thrilled Armstrong. \u201cIt has been a long season; my first competition was April 15th.\u201d\u00a0 <!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Edmonton, Alta., natives Angela Whyte and Christie Gordon both qualified for tomorrow\u2019s 100-metre hurdles final. Whyte finished second in her heat stopping the clock at 13.18 seconds. \u201cI clipped a few hurdles but I like where it&#8217;s going. Hopefully I clean it up for the final\u201d. Gordon, running in the same heat as Whyte, finished in third crossing the line in 13.36 seconds. \u201cI felt ok, wasn&#8217;t great. The job in prelims is to advance and I did that, I have to be happy with that\u201d.\u00a0 The 100-metre hurdles final is slated tomorrow at 6:20pm eastern time.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s 400-metres semi final Tremaine Harris of Markham, Ont., did not advance placing seventh in his heat in 48.21 seconds. \u201cI feel that I just didn\u2019t have my natural spring at this time. I\u2019m not where I want to be in competition but I\u2019m on track with my training for London which is important\u201d. Tremaine will now prepare for the men\u2019s 4&#215;400 metres relay on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Christian Brennan from Waterdown, Ont., placed sixth in her 400-metres heat clocking 53.34 seconds. She will not advance to the final. Her focus will now shift to the 4&#215;100 metres relay on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GUADALAJARA &#8211; Dylan Armstrong of Kamloops, B.C., capped off a season for the ages with Canada\u2019s first athletics (track and field) gold medal at the XVI Pan American Games in Guadalajara, Mexico.\u00a0 Dylan\u2019s fifth throw in the men\u2019s shot put of 21.30 metres established a new Pan American Games record and secured gold. \u201cDefinitely a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":161,"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":[20,1,11],"tags":[12,65,76],"class_list":["post-160","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-track","tag-dylan-armstrong","tag-mexico","tag-panam-games"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":166,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions\/166"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}