{"id":1033,"date":"2014-07-22T17:01:38","date_gmt":"2014-07-22T17:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/?p=1033"},"modified":"2014-07-22T17:01:38","modified_gmt":"2014-07-22T17:01:38","slug":"adams-continues-winning-streak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/news\/adams-continues-winning-streak","title":{"rendered":"Adams continues winning streak"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Monaco-Hercules.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1035\" title=\"Monaco - Hercules\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Monaco-Hercules.jpg?resize=590%2C223\" alt=\"Monaco - Hercules\" width=\"590\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Monaco-Hercules.jpg?w=1000&amp;ssl=1 1000w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Monaco-Hercules.jpg?resize=300%2C113&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 590px) 100vw, 590px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Valerie Adams notched up her 53rd straight win in the shot put winning the Diamond League meeting in Monaco with 20.38m.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h2>IAAF Diamond League, Herculis, Stade Louis II Monte-Carlo &#8211; 18 July 2014<\/h2>\n<p>Christina Schwanitz of Germany was second with 19.54m and Michelle Carter of USA third with 19.05m.<\/p>\n<p>Adams now has an unassailable lead with a maximum of 20 points in the Diamond League ahead of Schwanitz and Carter who are both on four points.<\/p>\n<p>She is the favourite to add a third straight Commonwealth title in Glasgow.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The big focus for me this year is the Commonwealth Games and obviously I now switch all my attentions there,&#8221; Adams told AAP.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My goal there is to get another championship medal and obviously win another gold for New Zealand.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Adams leads the 2104 world rankings with 20.46m, Cleopatra Borel from Trinidad and Tobago, who was fourth at Monaco, is the next best performed Commonwealth athlete this year with a best of 19.10m.<\/p>\n<p>Nick Willis in finishing seventh in the 1500m set a New Zealand national record of 3:29.91 breaking his own record of 3:30.35 set in Monaco in 2012.<\/p>\n<p>The time continues an amazing season for the 31 year old Olympic silver medal, adding a sub 3:30 1500m to a sub 3:50 mile and a national record over 3000.<\/p>\n<p>2010 Delhi Commonwealth Games 1500m gold medallist Silas Kipligat beat Kenyan compatriots Asbel Kiprop (2008 Beijing Olympic champion and 2011 and 2013 world champion) and Ronald Kemoi in 3:27.64, to Kiprop\u2019s 3:28.45 and Kemoi\u2019s 3:28.81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Valerie Adams notched up her 53rd straight win in the shot put winning the Diamond League meeting in Monaco with 20.38m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[332,8,1,14],"tags":[323,90,67,478,4],"class_list":["post-1033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-europe","category-featured","category-news","category-track","tag-323","tag-diamond-league","tag-shot-put","tag-track","tag-valerie-adams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Monaco-Hercules.jpg?fit=1000%2C378&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}