{"id":3261,"date":"2017-08-09T07:39:38","date_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:39:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2017\/08\/09\/world-championships-top-3-in-3000m-steeplechase-on-show-in-brussels\/"},"modified":"2017-08-09T07:39:38","modified_gmt":"2017-08-09T07:39:38","slug":"world-championships-top-3-in-3000m-steeplechase-on-show-in-brussels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2017\/08\/09\/world-championships-top-3-in-3000m-steeplechase-on-show-in-brussels\/","title":{"rendered":"World Championships Top 3 in 3000m steeplechase on show in Brussels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Olympic Champion Kipruto wins his first World title after finishing second in 2013 and in 2015. It dates back from 2005 that the World Championships 3000m Steeplechase wasn\u2019t won by a Kenyan athlete. In 2005 Saif Saaeed Shaheen won the World title, but he is a former Kenyan who then competed for Qatar. <\/p>\n<p>The last non-Kenyan World Champion was crowned way back in 1987, when Italian Francesco Panetta won the gold, ahead of Hagen Melzer of Germany and Belgian William Van Dijck.<\/p>\n<p><b>BRONZE FOR BETT<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Kipyegon Bett has also confirmed to compete at the AG Memorial Van Damme. The Kenyan won the bronze medal in the 800m in 1\u201945\u201d21.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conseslus Kipruto won the 3000m steeplechase at the WC in london. The 22 year old Kenyan was...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261","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=3261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3261"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}