{"id":1214,"date":"2024-02-16T11:38:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:38:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/2024\/02\/16\/bislett-legend-henry-rono-has-died\/"},"modified":"2024-02-16T11:38:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-16T11:38:40","slug":"bislett-legend-henry-rono-has-died","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/bislett-legend-henry-rono-has-died\/","title":{"rendered":"Bislett legend Henry Rono has died"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">Rono, who from an athletics perspective must definitely be considered one of the great personalities of the 70s, died on Thursday morning, after being hospitalized in the capital Nairobi for a week and a half.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">In 1978 he had his best season and was responsible for a record rush the world of athletics has hardly experienced the likes of.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">In the space of 81 days, he set four world records at four distances, all of which ended at Bislett Stadium where he improved the 3000 meters record to 7:32.1, a record that stood until 1989.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">&#8211; With a stronger opening, I think I can run the distance down to 7.29, he said after the race.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">But that didn&#8217;t happen. Instead, he improved the world record for 5000 meters to 13:06.20 in Knarvik in 1981.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size:12pt\"><span style=\"font-family:Aptos,sans-serif\">It was the last world record for the athlete who became Bislett&#8217;s first African record setter.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, the international athletics family woke up to a new sad message from Kenya. Just days...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oslo"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1214"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}