{"id":2304,"date":"2021-02-18T10:23:39","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T10:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/ones-to-watch-in-2021-kiplimo-and-giles\/"},"modified":"2021-02-18T10:23:39","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T10:23:39","slug":"ones-to-watch-in-2021-kiplimo-and-giles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/ones-to-watch-in-2021-kiplimo-and-giles\/","title":{"rendered":"Ones to Watch in 2021: Kiplimo and Giles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>2020 was a stellar year in the men&#8217;s long distance events, with Ugandan Joshua Cheptegei the stand-out star.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cheptegei became the third athlete to break a world record at the Monaco Diamond League when he ran 12:35.36 at Herculis last August, months before breaking the 10,000m record in Valencia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Yet he may have to fight a fellow Ugandan for the limelight this year, as Jacob Kiplimo looks to build on his own 2020 success.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cheptegei&#8217;s junior by four years, Kiplimo had already made numerous Diamond League appearances by the age of 18, before clocking his first WDL win in Rome last year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The memorable 3000m race&nbsp;saw him surge past fellow teenager Jakob Ingebrigtsen to clock a world lead and Ugandan record of 7:26.64 and move to eighth in the all-time rankings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This year, he may have&nbsp;the chance to get off to a winning start on African soil, with the men&#8217;s 3000m scheduled for the opening Wanda Diamond League meeting of the season in Rabat, Morocco on May 23rd.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other chances to compete will come at the scene of his previous triumph in Rome (June 4th), the site of Cheptegei&#8217;s world record in Monaco (July 9th) and in Eugene (August 21st), where Kiplimo has already made several Diamond League appearances.&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%2FO9oTM7jOmAQ&#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\/O9oTM7jOmAQ\" 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<h3>Others to watch<\/h3>\n<p><strong>Elliot Giles:&nbsp;<\/strong>The 26-year-old Brit ran 1:43.63 to break an 800m national indoor record previously held by Sebastian Coe in Torun earlier this week. A European Championships bronze medallist with nine Diamond League appearances to his name, Giles will be out to chalk up his first WDL win this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacob Kiplimo is hoping to emulate compatriot Joshua Cheptegei this year after picking up his...","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":[718,219,81,698,228,6,756,754,755,353,712,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-718","tag-3000m","tag-800m","tag-britain","tag-calendar","tag-diamond-league","tag-distance","tag-giles","tag-kiplimo","tag-schedule","tag-uganda","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304","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=2304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2304\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2304"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}