{"id":1228,"date":"2016-09-08T18:51:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:51:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/brussels-carter-wins-shot-put-but-adams-takes-diamond-trophy\/"},"modified":"2016-09-08T18:51:28","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T18:51:28","slug":"brussels-carter-wins-shot-put-but-adams-takes-diamond-trophy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/brussels-carter-wins-shot-put-but-adams-takes-diamond-trophy\/","title":{"rendered":"Brussels: Carter Wins Shot Put But Adams Takes Diamond Trophy"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Held in the historic surroundings of the Belgian capital\u2019s Grand Place, and on a raised platform for maximum visibility, Carter saw Adams reach 18.97m in the opening round before fouling her first attempt.<\/p>\n<p>Adams, who had the gold medal in Rio snatched out of her hands by Carter in the last round, improved to 19.32m in the second round but then everything fell into place for Carter who launched her shot out to 19.98m.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>It proved to be the winning distance, and the fifth best competition in Carter\u2019s long career which includes a world junior title back in 2004, but the excitement and long puts continued through all six rounds.<\/div>\n<div>Adams improved to 19.48m in the third round to let Carter know she could never relax and closed the gap further with 19.57m in the final round.<\/div>\n<div>However, Carter was the dominant figure in the competition and after her second effort, she added two more puts over 19.60m \u2013 19.69m in the third round and 19.61m with the last attempt of the competition \u2013 to consolidate her victory.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cI was my last meeting of the year so I had to give it everything. I would have loved to go over 20 metres but it wasn\u2019t to be but I certainly can\u2019t be disappointed with the distance.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cThrowing in a place such as this was a great opportunity to show off shot putting, it\u2019s a great setting. I really enjoyed it and the crowd were great, right behind us.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cIt\u2019s a beautiful setting and I love the architecture. We\u2019ve had some great competitions in city centres, Stockholm and Zurich spring to mind, but none as beautiful as this.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cNow, I\u2019m going to get home and relax. I\u2019ve got quite a few appearances, lined up after winning the gold in Rio and then I\u2019m going to go on holiday, probably in November, somewhere warm, maybe the Caribbean,\u201d commented Carter.<\/div>\n<div>Fittingly, as the event was part of an IAAF Diamond League final, Carter was sporting a large pair of earrings which at least looked like they were giant diamonds.<\/div>\n<div>\u201cNo, they are not real. I\u2019d be too scared of losing them or them falling off if they were real and I wouldn\u2019t be thinking about the competition, but they are rather spectacular, I like them and they\u2019ve become my lucky earrings as I was wearing them in the final in Rio,\u201d said the ever-glamourous Carter.<\/div>\n<div>Adams confirmed her third Diamond Race victory in finishing second, starting the competition with an unassailable 21-point margin over Hungary\u2019s Rio bronze medallist Anita Marton, who finished third on the day with 19.11m.<\/div>\n<div><i>Phil Minshull for the IAAF and the IAAF Diamond League<\/i><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rio 2016 Olympic Games champion Michelle Carter brought her season to an end with a win but the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1229,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1228\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1228"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}