{"id":1420,"date":"2018-06-30T20:44:39","date_gmt":"2018-06-30T20:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/2018\/06\/30\/kendricks-sets-the-bar-very-high\/"},"modified":"2018-06-30T20:44:39","modified_gmt":"2018-06-30T20:44:39","slug":"kendricks-sets-the-bar-very-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/kendricks-sets-the-bar-very-high\/","title":{"rendered":"Kendricks sets the bar very high"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri\">Sam Kendricks, Armand Duplantis and Renaud Lavillenie: the favourites for the pole vault competition at the MEETING de PARIS brought their A game to Charl\u00e9ty on Saturday. The three men slugged it out for victory and ultimately it was Sam Kendricks who had the final say, pulling off a jump of 5.96m. It\u2019s the second time in a row that he has won the MEETING de PARIS.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 11pt;font-family: Calibri\">The Swedish prodigy Armand Duplantis (just 18 years of age) finished 2<sup>nd<\/sup>, with a jump of 5.90m, Renaud Lavillenie finishing 3<sup>rd<\/sup>&nbsp;<\/span>(5.84m). The Frenchman has also won the Parisian meeting seven times, but he will have to wait until next year at least before he can attempt to take his tally to eight. For his part, the Brazilian Olympic champion Thiago Braz couldn\u2019t better 5.45m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sam Kendricks won the pole vault competition at the MEETING de PARIS on Saturday at Charl\u00e9ty,...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":904,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1420","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\/1420","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=1420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1420"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}