{"id":18566,"date":"2020-09-18T13:12:15","date_gmt":"2020-09-18T10:12:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/?p=18566"},"modified":"2020-09-18T13:12:27","modified_gmt":"2020-09-18T10:12:27","slug":"ugandas-kiplimo-wins-3000m-race-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/2020\/09\/18\/ugandas-kiplimo-wins-3000m-race-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Uganda\u2019s Kiplimo Wins 3000m Race In Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">First rising long-distance runner Jacob Kiplimo is back in the headlines again after he won 3000m at the Diamond League in Rome, Italy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Just weeks after winning the 5000m at the Golden Spike Meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, the son of the land registered a time of 7:16:64 to beat Norway\u2019s pre-race favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen at the Stadio Olympico in Rome, Italy in the men\u2019s 3000m final during the IAAF Diamond League competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This comes a week after an exceptional record-breaking performance at the 59th Ostrava Golden Spike in the Czech Republic last week, where he set a new meet record over the 5000m distance clocking 12:48.63.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Kiplimo\u2019s record in Rome over the seven-and-a-half-lap distance broke Australia\u2019s Ryan Gregson\u2019s meet record of 7:42.19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Fellow athlete, Joshua Cheptegei has joined many Ugandans to congratulate Kiplimo upon his achievements.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cHuge congratulations to my colleague Jacob kiplimo upon running the 6th fastest all time over 3000m in Rome with a time of 7:26, running a world lead, national record, the future is indeed bright.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First rising long-distance runner Jacob Kiplimo is back in the headlines again after he won 3000m at the Diamond League in Rome, Italy. Just weeks after winning the 5000m at the Golden Spike Meet in Ostrava, Czech Republic, the son of the land registered a time of 7:16:64 to beat Norway\u2019s pre-race favourite Jakob Ingebrigtsen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2270,"featured_media":18567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_paywall_metabox":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[102],"tags":[2275,2274],"class_list":["post-18566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-iaaf-diamond-league","tag-jacob-kiplimo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2270"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18568,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18566\/revisions\/18568"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ugmirror.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}