{"id":17040,"date":"2020-10-09T14:43:44","date_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:43:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=17040"},"modified":"2020-10-09T14:43:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-09T09:43:44","slug":"ugandan-runner-smashes-10000-meter-track-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/17040","title":{"rendered":"Ugandan runner smashes 10,000-meter track world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>KAMPALA, Uganda\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KAMPALA, Uganda\u00a0 Ugandan long-distance runner Joshua Cheptegei broke the men\u2019s 10,000-meter world record late Wednesday at an event in Valencia, Spain. The 24-year-old achieved the milestone at the specially-organized NN Valencia World Record Day. Cheptegei set a new world record of 26 minutes 11.02 seconds, beating the previous record set by Ethiopian long-distance runner Kenenisa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":17041,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17042,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17040\/revisions\/17042"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}