{"id":3290,"date":"2017-08-31T08:17:02","date_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2017\/08\/31\/kipruto-eyes-world-record-high-pace-from-the-start\/"},"modified":"2017-08-31T08:17:02","modified_gmt":"2017-08-31T08:17:02","slug":"kipruto-eyes-world-record-high-pace-from-the-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2017\/08\/31\/kipruto-eyes-world-record-high-pace-from-the-start\/","title":{"rendered":"Kipruto eyes world record: &#8216;High pace from the start&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>On 3 September 2004 Saif Saaeed Shaheen ran a 7:53.63 on the track of the King Baudouin Stadium, a time that\u2019s still standing to this day. Kipruto is not making any promises, but the reigning world champion will try to make a good start. \u201cI want the pace to be high and go as fast as possible,\u201d Kipruto said the day before the meeting. \u201cI want to make it a fast race and ge sub eight minutes. We\u2019ll see where we end up.\u201d<\/div>\n<div>Evan J\u00e4ger also told meeting director C\u00e9dric Van Branteghem togo for a &#8216;sub 8\u2019 time. With Soufiane El Bakkali there\u2019s a third athlete aiming for a super fast time and the overall win in the Diamond League. \u201cAt the world championships I followed J\u00e4ger because of my ankle problems,\u2019 Kipruto added, saying he no longer suffers from any ankle injury. \u201cTomorrow I won\u2019t follow him. I want to run like a world champion and like I ran at the previous Diamond League meetings. A high pace from the start and finish as fast as possible.&quot;<\/div>\n<div><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/40wWuT9EMls\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conseslus Kipruto, the world and Olympic 3000m steeple champion, is hoping for a fast time on...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1691,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3290","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\/3290","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=3290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3290"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}