{"id":3069,"date":"2011-08-12T21:16:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2011\/08\/12\/chemos-goes-for-world-record-at-memorial\/"},"modified":"2011-08-12T21:16:00","modified_gmt":"2011-08-12T21:16:00","slug":"chemos-goes-for-world-record-at-memorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2011\/08\/12\/chemos-goes-for-world-record-at-memorial\/","title":{"rendered":"Chemos goes for world record at Memorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>Belgacom Memorial Van Damme<\/strong> has a long history of world records. <strong>Milcah Chemos<\/strong> would like to contribute to that history. The Kenyan has her mind set on a new 3000 metre steeplechase world record.<\/p>\n<p>Chemos has yet to be beaten at the 3000 metre steeplechase this season. She has won six out of six. In order to receive the 40.000 dollar <strong>Diamond League<\/strong>-trophy, all she has to do is take part in <strong>Brussels<\/strong>. She doesn&#8217;t even have to finish or win the race, but of course Chemos plans on doing both.<\/p>\n<p>&quot;I&#8217;m not stressed about the <strong>Belgacom Memorial Van Damme<\/strong> at all&quot;, Chemos has told Kenyan media. &quot;I hope I can achieve my big goal in Brussels: to break the world record.&quot; Her personal record is 9:08.57, which she ran in <strong>Berlin<\/strong> in 2009. The world record has been held by the Russian <strong>Gulnara Samitova-Galkina<\/strong> since 2008 at 8:58.81.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Belgacom Memorial Van Damme has a long history of world records. Milcah Chemos would like to...","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-3069","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\/3069","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=3069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3069\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3069"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}