{"id":3449,"date":"2020-09-04T18:21:05","date_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2020\/09\/04\/hassan-pulverises-world-hour-record\/"},"modified":"2020-09-04T18:21:05","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T18:21:05","slug":"hassan-pulverises-world-hour-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2020\/09\/04\/hassan-pulverises-world-hour-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Hassan pulverises world hour record!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Just 15 minutes into the race, it was becoming apparent Tune&#8217;s distance of 18.517 would come under threat in Brussels. After 5k favourites Sifan Hassan and Brigid Kosgei were 10 seconds clear of the Ethiopian&#8217;s world record pace.<\/p>\n<p>The world record pace was visually represented via the Wavelight, a moving green light signal which illustrated Tune&#8217;s pace.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>In addition to the guiding light, Hassan and Kosgei counted on a strong pacemaker in Sheila Chelangat. The Kenyan led for 38 minutes and did a fantastic job to lift Hassan and Kosgei to a pace 40 seconds clear of the world record.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Due to the coronavirus crisis the grandstands of the King Baudouin Stadium remained empty, but you wouldn&#8217;t have known from listening to the race. For this year, real ambient and spectator sounds were mixed and played inside the stadium, giving the illusion of Brussels&#8217; typical packed grandstands, amplified by DJ Jonas&#8217; beats.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>It seemed to lift Kosgei and Hassan to a stunning performance. The pair worked together until the last minute, when Hassan found another gear. Kosgei struggled to keep up with the Dutchwoman&#8217;s scorching sprint and had to cede the win and the world record to Hassan.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>\n<p>Hassan kept on sprinting to set a stunning new benchmark of 18.930 km. Local Nina Lauwaert also beat the domestic Belgian record (Sigrid Vanden Bempt&#8217;s 17.264 km in 2003)&nbsp; with a distance of 17.315.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7RPWNBHf2H8\" width=\"560\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sifan Hassan is the new world hour record holder. The Dutchwoman took one hour to run 18.920 km...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2306,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3449","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\/3449","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=3449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3449"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}