{"id":3926,"date":"2024-08-30T21:54:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-30T21:54:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/diamond-league-letsile-tebogo-cruises-to-100m-win-in-9-87-seconds-in-rome\/"},"modified":"2024-08-30T21:54:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-30T21:54:53","slug":"diamond-league-letsile-tebogo-cruises-to-100m-win-in-9-87-seconds-in-rome","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/diamond-league-letsile-tebogo-cruises-to-100m-win-in-9-87-seconds-in-rome\/","title":{"rendered":"Diamond League: Letsile Tebogo cruises to 100m win in 9.87 seconds in Rome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Botswana&#8217;s Letsile Tebogo stormed to an impressive win in the 100m at the Rome Diamond League meet.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Olympic 200m champion eased off with 15m to go and glanced back at his competitors as he crossed the line in 9.87 seconds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Former world champions Christian Coleman and Fred Kerley, both of the United States, finished in second and third with times of 9.92 and 9.95 respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Great Britain&#8217;s Jeremiah Azu was eighth in 10.17 as home favourite and Tokyo Olympics champion Marcell Jacobs came last in the nine-man field.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Daryll Neita, a silver medallist in the 4x100m for Team GB at the Paris Olympics, was third in the women&#8217;s 200m, clocking 22.46, as American Brittany Brown won in 22.00.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Bahrain&#8217;s Winfred Yavi ran the second fastest time ever in the women&#8217;s 3000m steeplechase, a brilliant eight minutes and 44.39 seconds.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cn7l101eg07o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Botswana&#8217;s Letsile Tebogo stormed to an impressive win in the 100m at the Rome Diamond League meet. The Olympic 200m champion eased off with 15m to go and glanced back at his competitors as he crossed the line in 9.87 seconds. Former world champions Christian Coleman and Fred Kerley, both of the United States, finished [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3927,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3926","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926","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=3926"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3928,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3926\/revisions\/3928"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3926"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3926"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3926"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}