{"id":619,"date":"2012-07-23T13:54:00","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/2012\/07\/23\/world-record-holder-david-rudisha-plans-to-run-fast-in-zurich\/"},"modified":"2012-07-23T13:54:00","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T13:54:00","slug":"world-record-holder-david-rudisha-plans-to-run-fast-in-zurich","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/world-record-holder-david-rudisha-plans-to-run-fast-in-zurich\/","title":{"rendered":"World record holder David Rudisha plans to run fast in Zurich!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The young middle-distance star \u2013 Rudisha is only 23 years old &#8211; is no doubt a top favourite for the upcoming Olympic Games. But his marvellous form will benefit him beyond the challenging series of races in London. \u201cDavid Rudisha is one of very few stars who have the potential to break the world record in each and every race they line up for,\u201d explained Patrick K. Magyar, Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich Meeting Director. And David Rudisha is very straight forward when describing his outlook for the summer: \u201cI am focusing on the Olympics in London. And after that, I would like to run some really fast times.\u201d After the Olympic Games, Rudisha will return to his European base in T\u00fcbingen (Germany) in order to prepare for the Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich 800 m race. <br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>So far, David Rudisha, has run twice at Letzigrund Stadium, in 2007 and in 2009. He won on both occasions. This year, he will be both a star athlete and a star coach in Zurich: Prior to racing, he will train with the youngest fans of the sport at the kids\u2019 event on Tuesday, 28 August. The traditional event will be held at eleven locations in the German-speaking part of Switzerland and in the canton of Ticino. The location of the training session with David Rudisha has yet to be determined.<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/><strong>Lavillenie and Otto in the men\u2019s pole vault<\/strong><br \/>The men\u2019s pole vault at Weltklasse Z\u00fcrich is set to be an exciting encounter of the event\u2019s current elite, including Renaud Lavillenie and Bj\u00f6rn Otto. The duel for gold between the French and the German athlete represented one of the highlights at the European Athletics Championships in Helsinki. Both of them are contenders for an Olympic triumph.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Experts consider David Rudisha the most likely athlete to set a new world record. The Kenyan...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-zurich"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619","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=619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zurich.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}