{"id":3724,"date":"2025-03-02T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T10:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wdl-classics-gateshead-2010-jeter-charges-on\/"},"modified":"2025-04-21T16:47:49","modified_gmt":"2025-04-21T16:47:49","slug":"wdl-classics-gateshead-2010-jeter-charges-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wdl-classics-gateshead-2010-jeter-charges-on\/","title":{"rendered":"WDL Classics Gateshead 2010: Jeter charges on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>Live from the archive every single Sunday on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@diamondleague\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wanda Diamond League YouTube channel<\/a>, the WDL Classics series revisits historical Diamond League meetings with a re-live stream of the full two-hour TV broadcast. This week: Meeting records and Carmelita Jeter&#8217;s title charge in Gateshead.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Back in 2010, Carmelita Jeter was on top of the world. A year out from her world title in Daegu, the US sprinter was already considered among the greats thanks to her 100m personal best of 10.64, a time which still makes her the fourth-fastest woman in history today.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>She was also well on the way to becoming the first ever Diamond League champion in the women&#8217;s 100m, in a dominant season which saw her claim four of a possible seven Diamond League wins in the 100m.<\/p>\n<p>Victorious in Shanghai and Lausanne, Jeter headed to Gateshead for the British Grand Prix in July knowing that another win would put her within touching distance of the Diamond Trophy.<\/p>\n<p>She made no mistakes at the first ever British Diamond League meeting, clocking a cool 10.95 to extend her lead at the top of the 100m standings.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other outstanding performances in Gateshead included meeting records from Vincent Chepkok in the men&#8217;s 5000m (13:00.20) and fellow Kenyan Linus Chumba in the men&#8217;s 3000m steeplechase (8:19.72).<\/p>\n<p>Polish star Piotr Malachowski also landed a meeting and national record with 69.83m in the men&#8217;s discus, a third successive victory en route to his first ever Diamond League title.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>You can rewatch the 2010 Gateshead meeting in full from 15:00 GMT on the Wanda Diamond League YouTube channel this Sunday.<\/p>\n<h3>Watch WDL Classics: Gateshead 2010<\/h3>\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 500\/281\" 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%2FoTqdIV2WtII%3Ffeature%3Doembed&#038;video_width=500&#038;video_height=281)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gateshead 2010 Full Broadcast - Wanda Diamond League\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oTqdIV2WtII?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" 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>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>US sprinter Carmelita Jeter continued her charge towards the Diamond League title with a 100m...","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":3725,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1137],"tags":[215,245,1109,6,692,475,624],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flashback","tag-100m","tag-245","tag-classics","tag-diamond-league","tag-gateshead","tag-jeter","tag-wanda"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3724"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6214,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3724\/revisions\/6214"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3724"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}