{"id":909,"date":"2016-02-12T10:16:34","date_gmt":"2016-02-12T10:16:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/2015-top-5-womens-high-jump\/"},"modified":"2016-02-12T10:16:34","modified_gmt":"2016-02-12T10:16:34","slug":"2015-top-5-womens-high-jump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/2015-top-5-womens-high-jump\/","title":{"rendered":"2015 Top 5! Women&#8217;s High Jump"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Diamond Race winner Ruth Beitia naturally features. The Spaniard&#8217;s world leading jumps in Rome and New York helped her build a commanding lead early on in the Diamond Race.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was a lead she nearly lost, however, as the likes of Mariya Kuchina and Anna Chicherova stormed back to mount a late challenge. Only Kuchina&#8217;s defeat of Chicherova in Brussels meant that Beitia was able to cling onto her lead and win the Diamond Trophy.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Number one in our top five goes to Chicherova, whose brilliant return to form in Lausanne blew the Diamond Race wide open, and paved the way for a thrilling season climax.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"lazyload smush-lazyload-video smush-lazyload-youtube\" style=\"--smush-video-aspect-ratio: 640\/360\" 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%2FJPHFmURj5qs&#038;video_width=640&#038;video_height=360)\" ><iframe loading=\"lazy\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/JPHFmURj5qs\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"360\" width=\"640\" 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>Our 2015 Top 5! series continues, as we look back on the best moments of last season&#8217;s...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[72,6,8,75,71,14,74,73],"city":[],"class_list":["post-909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-anna-chicherova","tag-diamond-league","tag-diamond-race","tag-high-jump","tag-iaaf","tag-lausanne","tag-mariya-kuchina","tag-ruth-beitia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909","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=909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=909"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.diamondleague.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}