{"id":1252,"date":"2016-06-28T08:07:33","date_gmt":"2016-06-28T08:07:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/2016\/06\/28\/world-champions-next-stop-monaco\/"},"modified":"2016-06-28T08:07:33","modified_gmt":"2016-06-28T08:07:33","slug":"world-champions-next-stop-monaco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/world-champions-next-stop-monaco\/","title":{"rendered":"World Champions\u2019 next stop: Monaco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"pardfaut\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">Wayde VAN NIEKERK<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;will be competing on men\u2019s 400m. Last August, he finished first of the 2015 IAAF World Championships with a time of 43.48, establishing Africa\u2019s record and becoming the 4th best performer on the distance.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; \" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pardfaut\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">Asbel KIPROP<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;also confirmed his presence on 1500m. He will attempt to beat his own meeting record which he set last year. After a solo race, Kiprop threatened the World record with a time of 3:26.69 \u2013 less than a second from the World record, Kiprop became the third-fastest 1500m runner in history.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; \" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pardfaut\"><b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">Derek DROUIN<\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;will also come to Monaco for high jump. He is the current Canadian record-holder and World Champion.&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; \" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pardfaut\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">A triple winner of the Diamond Trophy,&nbsp;<b>Piotr MALACHOWSKI<\/b>&nbsp;in men\u2019s discus, has already established a comfortable lead in the Diamond League competition and will attempt to confirm his ease on Monaco\u2019s field.<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; \" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"pardfaut\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">As one of the last meetings before the Olympics games in Rio in August, Herculis Monaco will offer to the athletes a final opportunity to tune their settings, and so offers to the loyal and numerous spectators,&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"DE\">an undoubtedly<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; \" lang=\"EN-US\">&nbsp;breathtaking show!<\/span><span style=\"font-size: 10pt; \" lang=\"EN-US\"><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several World Champions have confirmed their presence on Monaco\u2019s track on July 15th &#8211;...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":570,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-monaco"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/570"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}