{"id":2128,"date":"2019-06-03T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/2019\/06\/03\/epic-battles-loom-in-the-1500m-and-110m-hurdles\/"},"modified":"2019-06-03T09:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-03T09:00:00","slug":"epic-battles-loom-in-the-1500m-and-110m-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/epic-battles-loom-in-the-1500m-and-110m-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Epic Battles Loom in the 1\u2019500m and 110m hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The 1\u2019500m men promises to be an epic battle, with the reigning \u201cEuropean family\u201d over the past 10 years, the <b>Ingebrigtsen<\/b> family. <b>Jakob<\/b>, nearly 19 years of age and reigning European champion, will start against his older brother, <b>Filip<\/b>, the 2016 European champion. The two Norwegians will be up against the best in the discipline namely, the Kenyans <b>Timothy Cheruiyot<\/b> and <b>Ronald Kwemoi<\/b>, having put in some fast performances in the early season, as well as the indoor world record holder in 1\u2019500m <b>Samuel Tefera (ETH)<\/b> and the world record holder over 1\u2019000m, <b>Ayanleh Souleiman (DJI)<\/b>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Another epic battle looms in the 110m hurdles, with the presence of the Russian, <b>Sergey Shubenkov<\/b> last year\u2019s winner in Lausanne, as well as <b>Orlando Ortega<\/b> from Spain, <b>Andrew Pozzi<\/b> from Great Britain, <b>Xie Wenjuin<\/b> from China and <b>Pascal Martinot-Lagarde<\/b> from France.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With a little over one month until the 2019 edition of Athletissima, taking place on Friday, 5th...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lausanne"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2128"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lausanne.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}