{"id":1444,"date":"2019-08-24T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T17:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/2019\/08\/24\/tomas-walsh-kicks-off-the-evening\/"},"modified":"2019-08-24T17:31:19","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T17:31:19","slug":"tomas-walsh-kicks-off-the-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/tomas-walsh-kicks-off-the-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Tomas Walsh kicks off the evening"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With four throws in excess of 22m (22.44m, 22.10m, 22.21m, 22.31m), the reigning world champion <b>Tomas Walsh<\/b> stunned spectators at the Charl\u00e9ty stadium again this Saturday. Thanks to an excellent introduction in the form of a 22.44m throw on his first attempt, he won the competition with a season\u2019s best and beat his own meeting record (22.00m) set in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>American <b>Joe Kovacs<\/b> finished second with a throw of 22.11m on his third attempt, the only competitor after Walsh to have thrown over 22m. Brazilian <b>Darlan Romani<\/b> completed the podium with 21.56m. Frenchman <b>Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Dag\u00e9e<\/b> finished in ninth place with 20.24m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Zealander Tomas Walsh has delivered a top-flight competition to kick off the IAAF Diamond...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":970,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1444","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\/1444","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=1444"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1444\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/970"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1444"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}