{"id":6488,"date":"2019-07-13T13:22:24","date_gmt":"2019-07-13T08:22:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/?p=6488"},"modified":"2019-07-13T13:22:24","modified_gmt":"2019-07-13T08:22:24","slug":"sifan-hassan-breaks-womens-mile-world-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/6488","title":{"rendered":"Sifan Hassan breaks women&#8217;s mile world record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; color: #313132; background: white;\">\u00a0Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands broke the 23-year-old women\u2019s mile world record on Friday when she clocked four minutes 12.33 seconds in a race held in Monaco.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0in 0in 12.0pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; color: #313132; background: white;\">It was a fitting performance in an event named the \u201cBrave like Gabe\u201d Mile and dedicated to former American runner Gabe Grunewald, who died from cancer last month at the age of 32.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; color: #313132;\">26years old Hassan, initially looked to be off the record pace in the event but finished strongly to edge the 4:12.56 set by Russia\u2019s Svetlana Masterkova in Zurich in 1996.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; box-sizing: border-box; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; font-variant-east-asian: inherit; font-stretch: inherit; -webkit-font-smoothing: antialiased; orphans: 2; text-align: start; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px; margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; color: #313132;\">Hassan, who moved to the Netherlands after leaving Ethiopia as a refugee when she was 15, said \u201cI knew I could run fast, but the first 800 was a bit slow, so after that I wasn\u2019t thinking it would be a world record,\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; vertical-align: baseline; margin: 0in 0in 22.5pt 0in;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16.0pt; color: #313132;\">The young athlete took more than two seconds off her previous best for the distance.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Sifan Hassan of the Netherlands broke the 23-year-old women\u2019s mile world record on Friday when she clocked four minutes 12.33 seconds in a race held in Monaco. It was a fitting performance in an event named the \u201cBrave like Gabe\u201d Mile and dedicated to former American runner Gabe Grunewald, who died from cancer last month [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,17,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-sports","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488","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=6488"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6491,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6488\/revisions\/6491"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}