{"id":911,"date":"2013-06-03T06:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-06-03T06:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/?p=911"},"modified":"2013-06-03T06:55:04","modified_gmt":"2013-06-03T06:55:04","slug":"adams-top-in-prefontaine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/news\/adams-top-in-prefontaine","title":{"rendered":"Adams top in Prefontaine"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_912\" style=\"width: 541px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adams.shot_.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-912\" class=\" wp-image-912 \" title=\"Valerie Adams - Shot Put\" alt=\"Valerie Adams - Shot Put\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adams.shot_.jpg?resize=531%2C270\" width=\"531\" height=\"270\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adams.shot_.jpg?w=590&amp;ssl=1 590w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adams.shot_.jpg?resize=300%2C152&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 531px) 100vw, 531px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-912\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Valerie Adams &#8211; Shot Put<\/p><\/div>\n<p>IAAF Diamond League, Prefontaine Classic Eugene Oregon \u2013 31 May 2013<br \/>\nDouble Olympic and triple world shot put champion Valerie Adams started her IAAF Diamond League season with a win in the shot put at the prestigious Prefontaine Classic meeting.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In her first major competition since the end of the 2012 season, Adams threw a best of 20.15m, just 3cm ahead of China&#8217;s Gong Lijao. Adams held the early lead with throws of 19.90m and 19.96m, but Gong went into the lead with a third round throw of 20.12m. Adams regained the lead in the fifth round with her longest throw of the night and the Chinese athlete could not respond.<\/p>\n<p>Michelle Carter from USA was third with 19.65m.<\/p>\n<p>There is now a three-way tie on four points in the Diamond League after two shot put competitions between Adams (1 win) Christina Schwanitz, Germany (1 win) and Gong (2 x 2nd placings).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IAAF Diamond League, Prefontaine Classic Eugene Oregon \u2013 31 May 2013 Double Olympic and triple world shot put champion Valerie Adams started her IAAF Diamond League season with a win in the shot put at the prestigious Prefontaine Classic meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":912,"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":[8,1,14,294],"tags":[401,90,31,123,495,4],"class_list":["post-911","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-track","category-usa","tag-401","tag-diamond-league","tag-iaaf","tag-shotput","tag-usa","tag-valerie-adams"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/adams.shot_.jpg?fit=590%2C300&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911","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=911"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/912"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}