{"id":10244,"date":"2025-02-05T10:40:12","date_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:40:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nafi-thiam-to-miss-indoor-season-to-concentrate-on-world-athletics-championships-in-september\/"},"modified":"2025-02-05T10:40:12","modified_gmt":"2025-02-05T10:40:12","slug":"nafi-thiam-to-miss-indoor-season-to-concentrate-on-world-athletics-championships-in-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/nafi-thiam-to-miss-indoor-season-to-concentrate-on-world-athletics-championships-in-september\/","title":{"rendered":"Nafi Thiam to miss indoor season to concentrate on World Athletics Championships in September"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Triple Olympic heptathlete champion Nafi Thiam will miss the indoor season to concentrate on the World Athletics Championships later in the year. <\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Thiam&#8217;s management confirmed she will not participate in the European Indoor and World Indoor Championships, which both take place in March. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 30-year-old Belgian has won three European indoor pentathlon gold medals but has never secured a world indoor title. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She won gold at the Worlds in 2017 and 2022 but missed the 2023 championships in Budapest because of an Achilles tendon injury.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This year&#8217;s World Championships take place in Tokyo, Japan from 13-21 September. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/c3w8lg484jzo\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triple Olympic heptathlete champion Nafi Thiam will miss the indoor season to concentrate on the World Athletics Championships later in the year. Thiam&#8217;s management confirmed she will not participate in the European Indoor and World Indoor Championships, which both take place in March. The 30-year-old Belgian has won three European indoor pentathlon gold medals but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10245,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10244","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-athletics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10244"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10246,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10244\/revisions\/10246"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10245"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10244"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10244"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10244"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}