{"id":1347,"date":"2019-05-06T12:26:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/2019\/05\/06\/the-season-has-started\/"},"modified":"2019-05-06T12:26:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-06T12:26:00","slug":"the-season-has-started","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/the-season-has-started\/","title":{"rendered":"The season has started!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Let\u2019s now have a look at the events we will host in Monaco!<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>Caster SEMENYA broke a meet record in the 800m, with a time of 1:54.98. Yaroslava MAHUCHIKH set a new PB of 1.96m in the high jump, becoming the youngest woman to win a Diamond League event. Dalilah MUHAMMAD clocked the 400m hurdles in 53.61, and established a new meet record as well as a World Lead.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><span style=\"white-space:pre\">\t<\/span><\/div>\n<div>In the men 800m race, Nijel AMOS, who won last year in Monaco, crossed the finish line in first position in 1:44.29 and Emmanuel KORIR took silver in 1:44.50. Also winner in Monaco, Soufiane EL BAKKALI won the 3000m steeplechase in 8:07.22 and set a new World Lead. In the men\u2019s 1500m, Elijah MANANGOI, winner in Monaco in 2017, established a World Lead and finished in 3:32.21, followed by Timothy CHERUIYOT (3:32.47), who won in Monaco last year, and Bethwell BIRGEN (3:33.12).&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<div>In pole vault, Sam KENDRICKS jumped 5.80m high and took the win, followed by Thiago BRAZ (5.71m) and Seito YAMAMOTO (5.61m). In the 200m, Dina ASHER-SMITH won with a fast time of 22.26, in front of Jamile SAMUEL who finished in 22.90. Finally, the Jamaican athlete Danielle WILLIAMS ran her season best on the 100m hurdles, with a time of 12.66.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a9 Photo credit :&nbsp;Jiro Mochizuki<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The season opening Doha Diamond League took place on Friday 3rd. The competition, held at the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-monaco"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347","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=1347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1347\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1347"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/monaco.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}