{"id":1810,"date":"2018-09-24T09:29:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/video-best-of-the-sprint-hurdles\/"},"modified":"2018-09-24T09:29:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T09:29:15","slug":"video-best-of-the-sprint-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/video-best-of-the-sprint-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Best of the Sprint Hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Kendra Harrison dealt the first blow on the Road To The Final, beating Brianna McNeal in Doha. It would prove to be the starting gun on a season long duel between the two athletes, with McNeal winning in Shanghai, Stockholm and Rabat before clinching victory by a whisker in the Final.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Harrison, though, once again enjoyed a triumphant return to London, the scene of her world record breaking 12.20 two years previously, beating McNeal at the London Stadium.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 645\/363\" 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%2FmcuFoUy6Xaw&#038;video_width=645&#038;video_height=363)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"645\" height=\"363\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mcuFoUy6Xaw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-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<p>In the men&#8217;s 110m hurdles, Sergey Shubenkov defended his title with a fine 12.97 in Brussels, building on earlier victories in Lausanne and Monaco.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a close run thing, though, as Shubenkov came in just a stride or two ahead of 2016 Diamond Trophy winner Orlando Ortega. Both the Spaniard and Ronald Levy also took one victory on the Road To The Final, and that wasn&#8217;t the extent of the competition. Not for the first time, Omar McLeod demonstrated some formidable early season form with wins in Shanghai and Eugene.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a sparkling year in the sprint hurdles in 2018, and though Sergey Shubenkov and Brianna...","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":[215,389,6,7,470,65,71,397,415,471,289,430],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-100m","tag-110m","tag-diamond-league","tag-diamond-trophy","tag-harrison","tag-hurdles","tag-iaaf","tag-mcleod","tag-mcneal","tag-nelvis","tag-ortega","tag-shubenkov"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810","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=1810"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1810\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1810"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}