{"id":1407,"date":"2018-06-30T18:28:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T18:28:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/2018\/06\/30\/samba-sends-the-clock-into-a-spin\/"},"modified":"2018-06-30T18:28:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T18:28:39","slug":"samba-sends-the-clock-into-a-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/samba-sends-the-clock-into-a-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Samba sends the clock into a spin!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri\">&#8220;I don\u2019t know what to say\u2026&#8221;&nbsp;<\/span>Abderrahman Samba can\u2019t quite believe it, having just run a sub-47-second time in the 400m hurdles. The 22-year-old Qatari took the win in 46&#8243;98 this Saturday at Charl\u00e9ty within the context of the MEETING de PARIS, ahead of Kyron McMaster (BVI, 2<sup>nd<\/sup>&nbsp;in 47&#8243;54) and Karsten Warholm (Norway, 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;in 48&#8243;06).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri\">This time of 46&#8243;98, the second best in history, takes Abderrahman Samba\u2019s performance to a whole new level, the latter already the leader of the Diamond League and undefeated this season after previously running 47&#8243;41. The age of the runners-up today (21 and 22) also confirms the spectacular new impetus within this discipline. In front of his home crowd, Frenchman Victor Coroller secured 7<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;<\/span>place in the race in 50&#8243;03.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Qatari Abderrahman Samba won the 400m hurdles at the MEETING de PARIS this Saturday at Charl\u00e9ty...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":865,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-paris"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}