{"id":709,"date":"2015-06-20T12:13:18","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:13:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/monaco-clash-of-giants-on-1500m\/"},"modified":"2015-06-20T12:13:18","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:13:18","slug":"monaco-clash-of-giants-on-1500m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/monaco-clash-of-giants-on-1500m\/","title":{"rendered":"Monaco: Clash of Giants on 1500m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Since 2011, these 3 shared all the major titles on 1500m and 5000m; for <b>HERCULIS<\/b>, Asbel KIPROP, Mo FARAH and Taoufik MAKHLOUFI saved the date of July 17<sup>th<\/sup> at Louis II Stadium for what looks like a race to not miss!<\/p>\n<p>Asbel <b>KIPROP<\/b> knows Monaco very well: he has run here the 3 best times of his career, with the peak of 2013 where his 3:27.72 ranks him 5<sup>th<\/sup> best performer of all-time. The double World Champion of 2011 and 2013 and 2008 Olympic Champion confirmed us his current shape with his victory on the mile at the IAAF DIAMOND LEAGUE meeting of Oslo, and we look forward to see him on the starting line!<\/p>\n<p>On his side Mo <b>FARAH<\/b> is the uncontested king of the 5000m, as his two World Champion titles in 2011 and 2013 and his Olympic title in 2012 demonstrate it. But the 1500m is not his weakest point, and his European Record on the distance in 3:28.81 (realized as well\u2026 in Monaco!) proves that he will be a pretender more than serious for the win. <\/p>\n<p>Taoufik <b>MAKHLOUFI <\/b>comes to complete the list, with his Olympic title in 2012. The same year, he has run in 3:30.80 in <b>MONACO<\/b>, establishing a new personal best (3:30.40 since at the IAAF DIAMOND LEAGUE of Doha). 3<sup>rd <\/sup>this year at the IAAF DIAMOND LEAGUE meeting of Eugene on 800m in 1:45.17, he is in the ideal shape to break the mythic barrier of 3:30.00 during the meeting Herculis on July 17<sup>th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>Joining this line-up as well will be Olympic and World medalist Matthew <b>CENTROWITZ<\/b>, sub 3:30 and Oceania Record Holder Nick <b>WILLIS<\/b> and 2012 European Champion Henrik <b>INGEBRIGTSEN<\/b>!<\/p>\n<p>One month before the IAAF World Championships in Beijing, these champions will be joining you at Louis II Stadium on <b>July 17<sup>th<\/sup> 2015<\/b> for what should be another amazing night of athletics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiprop, Farah and Makhloufi confirmed for Herculis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-709","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709","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=709"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=709"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}