{"id":2839,"date":"2022-12-16T15:30:31","date_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:30:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/best-of-2022-a-first-time-for-everything\/"},"modified":"2022-12-16T15:30:31","modified_gmt":"2022-12-16T15:30:31","slug":"best-of-2022-a-first-time-for-everything","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/best-of-2022-a-first-time-for-everything\/","title":{"rendered":"Best of 2022: A first time for everything"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With first-ever victories for India and Slovenia and a spate of national and series records, there was a whole new chapter of Diamond League history written in the throwing events in 2022. In the fifth and final part of our &#8220;Best of 2022&#8221; series, we take a look back at the standout performances in the discus, javelin and shot put.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Ceh starts in style<\/h3>\n<p>Prior to 2022, no Slovenian athlete had ever won a Diamond League meeting in any discipline and Kristjan Ceh was considered the second force in the men&#8217;s discus behind his Swedish rival Daniel Stahl. That all changed this year, with Ceh cruising to a perfect card of five wins in five to knock Stahl off his perch and crown himself Wanda Diamond League champion just a few weeks after picking up a gold medal at the World Athletics Championships in Oregon.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps the most impressive performance of all in a memorable season was Ceh&#8217;s Diamond League opener in Birmingham. Having never won on the circuit before, Ceh picked up his first win in style, throwing 71.27m to break Stahl&#8217;s Diamond League record and throw down the gauntlet ahead of a long summer. From that moment on, he was the undisputed man to beat in the men&#8217;s discus, and from that moment on, nobody managed to beat him when it counted.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was a first time for everything in the throwing events in the 2022 Wanda Diamond League...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2840,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[795,840,810,6,151,811,68,34,16,573,624,839],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-795","tag-ceh","tag-chopra","tag-diamond-league","tag-discus","tag-india","tag-javelin","tag-kovacs","tag-shot-put","tag-throws","tag-wanda","tag-winger"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839","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=2839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2839"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}