{"id":3124,"date":"2026-06-02T18:04:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:04:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/?p=3124"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:38:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T16:38:33","slug":"seven-olympic-champions-and-twelve-world-champions-heading-to-bislett-on-june-10","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/seven-olympic-champions-and-twelve-world-champions-heading-to-bislett-on-june-10\/","title":{"rendered":"Seven Olympic Champions and Twelve World Champions Heading to Bislett on June 10"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>This year\u2019s field at the\u00a0Oslo Bislett Games\u00a0features seven Olympic champions and twelve world champions who have collectively won more than 70 medals at the Olympic Games and World Championships.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s an impressive number,\u201d says meeting director\u00a0<strong>Steinar Hoen<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And these are not achievements from the distant past. Four of the Olympic champions are reigning champions:&nbsp;<strong>Julien Alfred<\/strong>&nbsp;in the 100 meters,&nbsp;<strong>Letsile Tebogo<\/strong>&nbsp;in the 200 meters,&nbsp;<strong>Emmanuel Wanyonyi<\/strong>&nbsp;in the 800 meters, and&nbsp;<strong>Thea LaFond&nbsp;<\/strong>in the triple jump.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In addition, sixteen of the Olympic medals held by Bislett participants have been won since 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of the World Championship gold medals represented in the field, five were won at last year\u2019s championships in Tokyo:&nbsp;<strong>Emmanuel Wanyonyi<\/strong>&nbsp;in the 800 meters,&nbsp;<strong>Isaac Nader<\/strong>&nbsp;in the 1500 meters,&nbsp;<strong>Pedro Pichardo<\/strong>&nbsp;in the triple jump,&nbsp;<strong>Jessica Schilder<\/strong>&nbsp;in the shot put, and&nbsp;<strong>Juleisy Angulo<\/strong>&nbsp;in the javelin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here too, we are primarily talking about recent achievements beyond the reigning champions, with more than thirty of the medals having been won since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This year\u2019s field at the\u00a0Oslo Bislett Games\u00a0features seven Olympic champions and twelve...","protected":false},"author":69,"featured_media":3125,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oslo-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/69"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3126,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3124\/revisions\/3126"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3124"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oslo.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}