{"id":484,"date":"2012-05-29T08:17:03","date_gmt":"2012-05-29T08:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/?p=484"},"modified":"2012-05-29T08:17:03","modified_gmt":"2012-05-29T08:17:03","slug":"brannen-zelinka-set-olympic-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/news\/brannen-zelinka-set-olympic-standards.htm","title":{"rendered":"Brannen, Zelinka set Olympic standards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Brannen and Jessica Zelinka record Olympic A+ standards<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_485\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brannen-2011.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-485\" class=\" wp-image-485 \" title=\"Nate Brannen \" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brannen-2011.jpg\" alt=\"Nate Brannen \" width=\"531\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brannen-2011.jpg 590w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/Brannen-2011-300x127.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nate Brannen<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jessica Zelinka of London, Ont., finished in sixth place at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria this past weekend.\u00a0 The athlete who lives and trains in Calgary amassed a score of 6393 points in the seven event heptathlon, surpassing the Olympic A+ standard.\u00a0 Zelinka&#8217;s performance stands as the second best all-time heptathlon score by a Canadian athlete behind her Canadian record of 6490 set at the 2008 Olympic Games.\u00a0 Zelinka now needs a top three finish at the Track and Field Trials to secure her spot on the 2012 Olympic Games team. \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Damian Warner, also of London, Ont., competed in the decathlon in Gotzis finishing in ninth place with an Olympic B standard of 7961 points.<\/p>\n<p>It was a big weekend for Nathan Brannen, the Cambridge, Ont., native raced to a new personal best and Olympic A+ Standard at the IAAF World Challenge Fanny Blankers-Koen Games in Hengelo, Netherlands. Brannen crossed the line in the men&#8217;s 1500-metres in 3:34.22 to finish eight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nathan Brannen and Jessica Zelinka record Olympic A+ standards Jessica Zelinka of London, Ont., finished in sixth place at the IAAF Combined Events Challenge Hypo-Meeting in Gotzis, Austria this past weekend.\u00a0 The athlete who lives and trains in Calgary amassed a score of 6393 points in the seven event heptathlon, surpassing the Olympic A+ standard.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":485,"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":[93,63,299,300],"class_list":["post-484","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-track","tag-93","tag-jessica-zelinka","tag-nathan-brannen","tag-olympic-standards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484","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=484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":487,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/484\/revisions\/487"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=484"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=484"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/canada\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=484"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}