{"id":1727,"date":"2018-06-28T15:45:41","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:45:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/lausanne-strong-womens-1500m-field-announced\/"},"modified":"2018-06-28T15:45:41","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T15:45:41","slug":"lausanne-strong-womens-1500m-field-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/lausanne-strong-womens-1500m-field-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Lausanne: Strong Women&#8217;s 1500m Field Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>The 21-year-old Ethiopian clocked a lifetime best of 3:57.64, the year&#8217;s second fastest time, to win Stockholm&#8217;s Diamond League fixture earlier this month, and has also collected recent victories at World Challenge Meeting races in Ostrava and Madrid.<\/p>\n<p>The challengers include Caster Semenya, the world and Olympic 800m champion and world bronze medallist over 1500m last year. The 27-year-old South African improved her lifetime best in her last two appearances over the distance, first to 4:00.71 to take the Commonwealth title on 10 April then again to 3:59.92 to win in Doha.<\/p><\/div>\n<div>Laura Muir of Great Britain, the world indoor silver medallist who&#8217;s collected runner-up finishes in Eugene and Stockholm, will also race. She&#8217;ll bring a 3:58.53 season&#8217;s best to the line.<\/div>\n<div>The line-up also includes Shelby Houlihan, the Eugene 1500m winner with a 3:59.06 lifetime best who took the 1500\/5000m double at the US championships last weekend, and Moroccan Rababe Harafi, who has a 3:59.51 lifetime best set in Eugene in late May. Sifan Hassan of The Netherlands, the 2016 world indoor champion, was also announced.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gudaf Tsegay heads a strong women&#8217;s 1500m field announced today by organisers of...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1727","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727","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=1727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1727"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}