{"id":88,"date":"2003-03-30T12:21:40","date_gmt":"2003-03-30T12:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/cross-country\/?p=88"},"modified":"2011-12-26T17:47:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-26T17:47:21","slug":"bekele-takes-4k-title-in-lausanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/worldchamps\/2003\/bekele-takes-4k-title-in-lausanne.htm","title":{"rendered":"Bekele takes 4k title in Lausanne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Victory sets Bekele to take double double<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/cross-country\/files\/2011\/12\/1WXbekele4k.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-89\" style=\"margin-left: 10px; margin-right: 10px;\" title=\"Bekele 4k title 2003\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/cross-country\/files\/2011\/12\/1WXbekele4k.jpg\" alt=\"Bekele 4k title 2003\" width=\"130\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/1WXbekele4k.jpg 203w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/1WXbekele4k-153x300.jpg 153w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 130px) 100vw, 130px\" \/><\/a>29 March 2003 &#8211; Avenche, Switzerland \u2013 Ethiopia&#8217;s Kenenisa Bekele defended his short course title in spectacular ways..<\/p>\n<p>This year he was not going to be the &#8216;surprise package of 2003&#8217;, he was a watched man, pursued by 4 Kenyans right from the start. The packing of the Kenyans in the first 10 was evident and the little Ethiopian was in for a rough ride.<\/p>\n<p>However, he proved his true value as a cross country exponent when he pulled away from Kenya&#8217;s finest over the last 200m.<\/p>\n<p>The manner with which he did this showed that he still carried much in the tank and tomorrow&#8217;s long course double looks like as though it may be on.<\/p>\n<p>Bekele finished in a time of 11:01, 3 seconds ahead of John Kibowen with Benjamin Limo third. John Kibowen has won this title on 2 occasions previously, before the rise of Ethiopia and the World&#8217;s brightest prospect.<\/p>\n<p>contributed                      by <strong><span style=\"color: #000066;\">Time-to-Run<\/span><\/strong> source<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victory sets Bekele to take double double 29 March 2003 &#8211; Avenche, Switzerland \u2013 Ethiopia&#8217;s Kenenisa Bekele defended his short course title in spectacular ways.. This year he was not going to be the &#8216;surprise package of 2003&#8217;, he was a watched man, pursued by 4 Kenyans right from the start. The packing of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"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":[22],"tags":[115,114,12,24],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-22","tag-115","tag-ethiopia","tag-kenenisa-bekele","tag-lausanne"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/xc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}