{"id":1515,"date":"2017-11-04T12:29:08","date_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/world-record-breakers\/"},"modified":"2017-11-04T12:29:08","modified_gmt":"2017-11-04T12:29:08","slug":"world-record-breakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/world-record-breakers\/","title":{"rendered":"World Record Breakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Aries Merritt <\/b>was the first athlete to break a world record at a Diamond League meeting when he smashed the 110m hurdles record with a time of 12.80 seconds in Brussels in 2012. It was a double whammy for Merritt, who would also secure the Diamond Trophy at the same meeting.<\/p>\n<p>Another undisputed Diamond League hero is <b>Genzebe Dibaba<\/b>, whose finest moment came in Monaco in 2015. Surging ahead of the field in the 1500m, Dibaba came home in 3:50.07, running the last 800 metres in an astonishing 2.01.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most dramatic world record in the Diamond League was set by <b>Kendra Harrison <\/b>in London in 2016. Having missed out on a place in the USA Olympic team, Harrison made amends with an astonishing 12.20 in the 100m hurdles. The clock initially showed the wrong time, so it was not until a few seconds later that Harrison&#8217;s competitors pointed out to her that she had broken the world record. The result: an iconic image of the young hurdler turnining towards the screen in shock and delight at her own achievement.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Just weeks later, 19-year-old&nbsp;<b>Ruth Jebet <\/b>would set another Diamond League world record in Paris. Having battled with Hyvin Kiyeng for the Diamond Trophy all season, Olympic champion Jebet eventually pulled away with a brilliant world record run of 8:52.78.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 640\/360\" data-bg-image=\"url(https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-admin\/admin-ajax.php?action=smush_video_thumbnail&#038;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fembed%2FWHdeb2rfSgA&#038;video_width=640&#038;video_height=360)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WHdeb2rfSgA\" frameborder=\"0\" gesture=\"media\" allowfullscreen=\"\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\"><\/iframe><span class=\"smush-play-btn\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Play video\">\r\n\t\t\t\t<span tabindex=\"0\" class=\"smush-play-btn-inner\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<span>Play<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t\t<\/span>\r\n\t\t\t<\/span><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Few things beat breaking a world record, something which several athletes have achieved on the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[341,340,255,260,307,6,279,148,184,180],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-100m-hurdles","tag-110m-hurdles","tag-1500m","tag-3000m-steeplechase","tag-aries-merritt","tag-diamond-league","tag-genzebe-dibaba","tag-kendra-harrison","tag-ruth-jebet","tag-world-record"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515","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=1515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1515\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1515"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}