{"id":3067,"date":"2011-09-01T20:31:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-01T20:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2011\/09\/01\/world-champion-jeilan-on-10000m-at-memorial\/"},"modified":"2011-09-01T20:31:00","modified_gmt":"2011-09-01T20:31:00","slug":"world-champion-jeilan-on-10000m-at-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2011\/09\/01\/world-champion-jeilan-on-10000m-at-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"World champion Jeilan on 10,000m at Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Ibrahim Jeilan<\/strong>, the newly crowned world champion on the 10,000m, will also take part in the <strong>Belgacom Memorial Van Damme<\/strong>. He wants to add to his world title a world best year performance in <strong>Brussels<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week the Ethiopian Jeilan rather surprisingly won the 10000m. After a tactical race, he placed a tremendous acceleration in the final stretch to capture the gold medal in 27:13.81, ahead of <strong>Mo Farah<\/strong> from Britain. It was precisely Farah who was the fastest on the 10,000m this year; in Eugene he managed a time of 26:46.57. A time that Jeilan eyes for the Memorial.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgacom Memorial Van Damme has a long tradition in the men&#8217;s 10km. The world record by <strong>Kenenisa Bekele<\/strong> has been established in the King Baudouin stadium in 2005. No other athlete came near the time of 26:17.53 ever since.<\/p>\n<p>The Belgacom Memorial Van Damme takes place Friday, 16 September at the King Baudouin stadium in Brussels. A few thousand tickets are still remaining. You can book tickets <link \/Templates\/IAAFDiamondLeague\/PageTypes\/StandardContentPageType.aspx?id=248>online<\/link> or by calling 02 478 20 25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ibrahim Jeilan, the newly crowned world champion on the 10,000m, will also take part in 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":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3067"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}