{"id":1086,"date":"2018-07-21T07:43:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T07:43:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2018-07-21T07:43:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T07:43:08","slug":"chepkoech-sets-3000m-steeplechase-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/news\/chepkoech-sets-3000m-steeplechase-record","title":{"rendered":"Chepkoech sets 3000m steeplechase record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Beatrice-Chepkoech.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-1087\" title=\"Beatrice Chepkoech\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Beatrice-Chepkoech.jpg\" alt=\"Beatrice Chepkoech\" width=\"580\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Beatrice-Chepkoech.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/Beatrice-Chepkoech-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 580px) 100vw, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Beatrice Chepkoech broke the world record* to win the 3000m steeplechase at the Herculis meeting on Friday (20), clocking 8:44.32 at the <strong>IAAF Diamond League<\/strong> meeting in Monaco.<!--more--><\/p>\n<h3>Beatrice Chepkoech sets 3000m steeplechase record<\/h3>\n<p>The Kenyan won by more than 16 seconds, having gone through the 2000-metre point in 5:49.81, following an opening kilometre of 2:55.23.<\/p>\n<p>Chepkoech, who finished fourth at the 2016 Olympic Games and at the 2017 World Championships, held the previous world-leading mark with her 8:59.36 clocking at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Paris.<\/p>\n<p>World silver medallist Courtney Frerichs finished second in a North American record of 9:00.85.<\/p>\n<p><em>*Subject to the usual ratification procedures.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beatrice Chepkoech broke the world record* to win the 3000m steeplechase at the Herculis meeting on Friday (20), clocking 8:44.32 at the IAAF Diamond League meeting in Monaco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1087,"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":[141,8,4,647,1,648],"tags":[649,650],"class_list":["post-1086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-diamond","category-events","category-featured","category-monaco","category-news","category-steeplechase","tag-beatrice-chepkoech","tag-kenya"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1088,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1086\/revisions\/1088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}