{"id":1455,"date":"2019-08-24T20:56:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/2019\/08\/24\/el-bakkali-excels\/"},"modified":"2019-08-24T20:56:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-24T20:56:02","slug":"el-bakkali-excels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/el-bakkali-excels\/","title":{"rendered":"El Bakkali excels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whilst the Kenyans, <b>Conseslus Kipruto<\/b> leading, had been piling on the pressure up to that point, <b>El Bakkali<\/b> elbowed his way up into the lead with a lap to go to the finish and retained that position to the end, despite opposition from <b>Benjamin Kigen<\/b>. He savoured his victory a few metres before the line. It\u2019s his third win of the season in Diamond League, where he is currently topping the leader board. <b>Kigen<\/b>, beaten in the sprint finish, bagged second place in 8\u201907\u2019\u201969, whilst Ethiopian <b>Lemecha Girma<\/b> took third in 8\u201908\u2019\u201963. Tenth, Frenchman <b>Djilali Bedrani<\/b> attempted to draw level with the leaders and finished in a time of 8\u201916\u2019\u201991.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moroccan Soufiane El Bakkali upped the ante on the bell to hunt down victory in the 3,000m...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1003,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1455","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\/1455","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=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1003"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paris.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}