{"id":1220,"date":"2024-05-07T09:02:44","date_gmt":"2024-05-07T09:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/2024\/05\/07\/one-year-after-the-breakthrough-he-is-chasing-the-european-record\/"},"modified":"2024-05-07T09:02:44","modified_gmt":"2024-05-07T09:02:44","slug":"one-year-after-the-breakthrough-he-is-chasing-the-european-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/one-year-after-the-breakthrough-he-is-chasing-the-european-record\/","title":{"rendered":"One year after the breakthrough he is chasing the European record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Preliminary men’s 400 meter starting field:<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

Quincy Hall<\/span><\/b> from the USA.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Number two in the world ranking.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Personal best: 44.37.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Bronze in 400 meters in the WCh 2023.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Vernon Norwood<\/span><\/b> from the USA.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Number three in the world ranking.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Personal best: 44.26.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Number four in the 400 meters in the WCh 2023. Six global championships in the 4×400 meter relay<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Matthew Hudson Smith <\/span><\/b>from Great Britain.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Number four in the world ranking.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Personal best 44.26.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Silver in 400 meters in the WCh 2023. Bronze in 2022. European champion 2018 and 2022. Number two 2014.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Kirani James<\/span><\/b> from Grenada.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Number five in the world ranking.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Personal best 43.74.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Gold, silver and bronze in 400 meters from the Olympics in 2012, 2016 and 2021 respectively. Ditto from the WCh in 2011, 2022 and 2015 respectively.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Winner of Diamond League 2011, 2022 and 2023.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Rusheen McDonald<\/span><\/b> from Jamaica.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Number eight in the world ranking.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Personal best: 43.93.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Number three in the 400 meters in the indoor WCh 2024.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

H\u00e5vard Bentdal Ingvaldsen<\/span><\/b> from Norway.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Number eleven in the world ranking.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Norwegian record holder with 44.39.<\/span><\/span><\/span>
Number six in the 400 meters in the WCh 2023. ECh gold U23 2023.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Super talent H\u00e5vard Bentdal Ingvaldsen (21) became one of the 2023 season’s big profiles...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":916,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1220","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\/1220","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=1220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1220\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1220"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}