{"id":3530,"date":"2022-08-31T18:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/2022\/08\/31\/3-new-hall-of-fame-members-inducted-during-gala-dinner\/"},"modified":"2022-08-31T18:57:00","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T18:57:00","slug":"3-new-hall-of-fame-members-inducted-during-gala-dinner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/2022\/08\/31\/3-new-hall-of-fame-members-inducted-during-gala-dinner\/","title":{"rendered":"3 new Hall of Fame members inducted during gala dinner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Allianz Memorial Van Damme can look back on a rich history dating back to 1977. In order to honour the athletes gracing the event with brilliant performances over the years, the organisers decided to introduce a Hall of Fame in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In the late 80s to early 90s Jackie Joyner-Kersee was one of the major draws at the memorial. In 1987 (7m07) and 1994 (7m11) the American won the long jump competition. She also passed the seven-metre barrier in 1986 (7m12) and1992 (7m00) when she finished second behind German Heike Drechsler, who was previously inducted into the Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n<p>Kenyan Daniel Komen established a new 5,000 metres world record at the Memorial of 1997. Later that evening his compatriot Paul Tergat broke the world record of the 10,000 metres.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 15 athletes now form part of the Allianz Memorial Van Damme Hall of Fame. In addition to Paul Tergat, Daniel Komen, Jackie-Joyner Kersee and Heike Drechsler they also include Mike Powell, Blanka<br \/> Vlasic, Willie Banks, Gail Devers, Sebastian Coe, Steve Cram, Merlene Ottey, Hicham El Guerrouj, Kim Gevaert, Tia Hellebaut and Wilfried Meert.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jackie Joyner-Kersee, Paul Tergat and Daniel Komen have officially been inducted into the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2627,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3530","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\/3530","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=3530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2627"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3530"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.wdl.uat-sports.swisstiming.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}