{"id":1920,"date":"2019-05-20T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/shanghai-what-you-missed\/"},"modified":"2019-05-20T06:42:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T06:42:30","slug":"shanghai-what-you-missed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/shanghai-what-you-missed\/","title":{"rendered":"Shanghai: What You Missed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It wasn&#8217;t just the superstars and Diamond Trophy holders who made an impact in Shanghai. There were also a handful of stellar performances from Diamond League debutants, as well as the odd meeting record.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Meet in a minute<\/h3>\n<p>If you are pushed for time, <link https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bxow3f3l-kb\/ - external-link-new-window \"Opens internal link in current window\">click here to watch all the best action from Shanghai condensed into just 60 seconds<\/link>, accompanied by the dulcet tones and elegant wordsmithery of US sprint star Noah Lyles.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Top stories<\/h3>\n<p>Christian Coleman and Bingtian Su had been in the spotlight ahead of the 100m, but it was Coleman&#8217;s compatriot Lyles who stole the show in the 100m, hunting Coleman down in the last 20 metres to just pip him to the line.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 644\/362\" 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%2FK7ToRWDsBvk&#038;video_width=644&#038;video_height=362)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"644\" height=\"362\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/K7ToRWDsBvk\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 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>&quot;I said to my coach in warm up &#8216;today is the day&#8217;,&quot; said Lyles. &quot;I feel hot &#8230; I knew I could come late for the win.&quot;<\/p>\n<p>Sizzling Abderrahman Samba was equally hot in the 400m hurdles, as he completed a statement victory in his first meeting with rising star Rai Benjamin. The Qatari ran his second fastest time ever to take victory in 47.21 and make a perfect start to his qualification campaign.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Diamond Trophy holder Beatrice Chepkoech, meanwhile, also delivered a dominant performance in the women&#8217;s 3000m steeplechase to get her title defence off to a dream start.<\/p>\n<p>It was not all about the established stars, however, as two US talents made a major splash on their Diamond League debuts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sprinter Aleia Hobbs ran 11.03 in the 100m to take all eight points from her very first Diamond League appearance, despite running with a broken wrist picked up in an ill-fated game of laser tag.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 643\/362\" 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%2FARURz3wVYc0&#038;video_width=643&#038;video_height=362)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"643\" height=\"362\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ARURz3wVYc0\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 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>Chase Ealey, meanwhile, sprang one of the surprises of the night in the shot put, beating home favourite Lijiao Gong to win the shot put with 19.58m.<\/p>\n<p>The performance of the night must go to Omar McLeod, however, who took a record fourth successive win in Shanghai with an impressive 13.12.<\/p>\n<p>The Jamaican&#8217;s victory was made all the more impressive by the fact that it came in the midst of a family tragedy, McLeod having learned of his aunt&#8217;s passing just a day before.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>He admitted after the race that it had been &quot;hard to get out bed&quot;, and dedicated his victory to his aunt.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 643\/362\" 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%2F1obaecgs2m8&#038;video_width=643&#038;video_height=362)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"643\" height=\"362\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1obaecgs2m8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" 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>Noah Lyles, Abderrahman Samba and Omar McLeod all grabbed the headlines as the Road to the Final...","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":[545,6,544,314,543,428,397,542,427,106],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-chepkoech","tag-diamond-league","tag-ealy","tag-highlights","tag-hobbs","tag-lyles","tag-mcleod","tag-recap","tag-samba","tag-shanghai"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920","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=1920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1920"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}