{"id":1663,"date":"2016-09-01T12:33:09","date_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/2016\/09\/01\/elaine-thompson-shining-twice-at-weltklasse-zurich\/"},"modified":"2016-09-01T12:33:09","modified_gmt":"2016-09-01T12:33:09","slug":"elaine-thompson-shining-twice-at-weltklasse-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/elaine-thompson-shining-twice-at-weltklasse-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"Elaine Thompson shining twice at Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two new meeting records were set \u2013 one by Olympic champion Christian Taylor (USA; 17.80m) in the triple jump and another one by 3000m SC world record holder Ruth Jebet (Bahrain) in 9:07.00. And New Zealand\u2019s shot putter Tom Walsh treated himself and the audience to a new Oceanian record (22.20m).<\/p>\n<h3>Vowing the crowd:&nbsp; Kariem Hussein and Selina B\u00fcchel<\/h3>\n<p>Switzerland\u2019s local heroes helped electrify&nbsp; the trademark atmosphere at Letzigrund Stadium. Both 400m hurdler Kariem Hussein and 800m runner Selina B\u00fcchel vowed their home crowd at the sold-out arena (25,000 spectators) with courageous races, even though their efforts did not quite pay off in the end.<\/p>\n<p>The same could be said for Evan Jager who won the hearts of the audience by leading the 5000m field \u2013 by as much as almost 100 metres at times \u2013 only to be caught in the last metres of the race. His bravery was celebrated by a delighted Zurich audience.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich was an IAAF Diamond League final event. 16 Diamond Trophies were awarded to the most successful athletes of the season.<\/p>\n<p><b>Results \u201eWeltklasse Z\u00fcrich 2016\u201c<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i><b>More:<\/b><\/i><br \/>Rowbury Wins 1500m But Muir Takes Trophy <br \/>Walsh Sends Shot Flying to 22.20m <br \/>Elaine Thompson wins thrilling 200m contest in Zurich<\/p>\n<p><b>Flash Quotes:<\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Double Olympic champion Elaine Thompson (Jamaica; 21.85) first defeated world champion Dafne...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":921,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zurich"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/921"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1663"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}