Yohan Blake, \u201cThe Beast\u201d,\u00a0 bringing sprint power to Shanghai<\/p>\n
The second fastest man of all time in the 200m, Yohan Blake, will head to Asia for his start of the summer season.\u00a0 Blake confirmed his participation on the 200m at the Samsung Diamond League in Shanghai, May 18 2013. It will be the first time for \u201cthe beast\u201d to come to the Chinese metropolis. The introduction of Blake to the fast track in the Shanghai stadium will be a great sprint spectacle.<\/p>\n
With a personal best of 19.26 in the 200 meter, Blake is not only the second-fastest man on the track but still a youngster in the field. The 23-year old Jamaican is seen as one of the most important challengers of the current world records on 100m and 200m. Samsung\u00a0 Diamond League Shanghai held in the Shanghai Stadium has had very fast sprint results before. With a personal best of 19.26 and\u00a0 8 races under 20 seconds Blake is a serious threat for the meeting record, currently 19.76 set by Usain Bolt in 2009.<\/p>\n
Blake is looking forward to coming to Shanghai: \u201cReturning to China will bring good memories for me. It was in China that I won my first major international medal as a junior athlete at the 2006 IAAF World Junior Championships. Competing in the Samsung Diamond League Shanghai will afford me the opportunity to once again experience the truly magnificent hospitality of the Chinese people. I am looking forward to in return, competing well at the 200m distance\u201d.<\/p>\n
The great potential of Blake in combination with the proven fast track in Shanghai will create a fantastic combination for a special night of track and field.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Yohan Blake, \u201cThe Beast\u201d,\u00a0 bringing sprint power to Shanghai The second fastest man of all time in the 200m, Yohan Blake, will head to Asia for his start of the summer season.\u00a0 Blake confirmed his participation on the 200m at the Samsung Diamond League in Shanghai, May 18 2013. It will be the first time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":557,"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":[541,141,1,387],"tags":[11,625,635,389,17],"class_list":["post-556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-diamond","category-news","category-pre-event","tag-11","tag-diamond","tag-pre-event","tag-shanghai","tag-yohan-blake"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556","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=556"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1262,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/556\/revisions\/1262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/track\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}