{"id":271176,"date":"2020-10-08T02:47:54","date_gmt":"2020-10-08T06:47:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=271176"},"modified":"2020-10-08T02:47:54","modified_gmt":"2020-10-08T06:47:54","slug":"ugandan-runner-smashes-10k-meter-track-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/10\/08\/ugandan-runner-smashes-10k-meter-track-world-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan runner smashes 10K-meter track world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_271178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-271178\" style=\"width: 720px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29737974_2055953147993006_4616851309306314752_n.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-271178\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29737974_2055953147993006_4616851309306314752_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29737974_2055953147993006_4616851309306314752_n.jpg 720w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29737974_2055953147993006_4616851309306314752_n-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/29737974_2055953147993006_4616851309306314752_n-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-271178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cheptegei set a new world record of 26 minutes 11.02 seconds, beating the previous record set by Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele on Aug. 26, 2005 of 26:17:53 in the Belgian capital Brussels. (File <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/BhTwBZnlWmN\/\">photo<\/a>: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/joshuacheptegei\">joshuacheptegei\/Instagram<\/a>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>KAMPALA, Uganda<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 Ugandan long-distance runner Joshua Cheptegei broke the men\u2019s 10,000-meter world record late Wednesday at an event in Valencia, Spain.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-year-old achieved the milestone at the specially-organized NN Valencia World Record Day.<\/p>\n<p>Cheptegei set a new world record of 26 minutes 11.02 seconds, beating the previous record set by Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa Bekele on Aug. 26, 2005 of 26:17:53 in the Belgian capital Brussels.<\/p>\n<p>This year alone, Cheptegei has broken three world records, including for the 5,000m on Aug. 14 and the 5-kilometer road world record in Monaco in February.<\/p>\n<p>Ugandans celebrated his success in the streets of the capital Kampala.<\/p>\n<p>President Yoweri Museveni and other senior government officials sent congratulatory messages to Cheptegei.\u00a0<strong><em>(Anadolu)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA, Uganda\u00a0\u2013 Ugandan long-distance runner Joshua Cheptegei broke the men\u2019s 10,000-meter world record late Wednesday at an event in Valencia, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":271178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-271176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","mauthors-anadolu","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=271176"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271176\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":271180,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271176\/revisions\/271180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/271178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=271176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=271176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=271176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}