{"id":2287,"date":"2020-11-22T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-22T12:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/warholm-on-the-warpath-in-2020\/"},"modified":"2020-11-22T12:52:00","modified_gmt":"2020-11-22T12:52:00","slug":"warholm-on-the-warpath-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/warholm-on-the-warpath-in-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Warholm on the Warpath in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Karsten Warholm established himself as king of the 400m hurdles at the end of 2019, clocking a European and Diamond League record of 46.92 to claim&nbsp;a jaw-dropping victory over rival Rai Benjamin and win the Diamond League Final in Zurich.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>After successfully defendeing&nbsp;his world championship title in Doha a few weeks later, the Norwegian looked set to make history in 2020 with a shot at Olympic gold and the world record within reach.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Even the coronavirus pandemic couldn&#8217;t force Warholm to break his stride this year, as the one-lap wonder rampaged to victory after victory in the Wanda Diamond League and moved milliseconds closer to being the fastest 400m hurdler in history.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>From his world-best beating solo run over 300m hurdles to his new European and Diamond League record in Stockholm, we&#8217;ve collated some of Warholm&#8217;s finest performances this season in a clip which will premiere on YouTube at 20.00 CET (GMT+1) on Sunday evening.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 661\/372\" 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%2FWfiyDC11yBk&#038;video_width=661&#038;video_height=372)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"372\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WfiyDC11yBk\" width=\"661\" 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>Karsten Warholm&#8217;s unstoppable rise to superstardom continued in 2020, as the Norwegian...","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":[216,342,617,6,314,738,676,741,739,624,429,740],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2287","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-400m","tag-400m-hurdles","tag-best","tag-diamond-league","tag-highlights","tag-karsten","tag-norway","tag-races","tag-sunday","tag-wanda","tag-warholm","tag-youtube"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287","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=2287"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2287\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2287"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2287"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2287"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}