{"id":2981,"date":"2014-08-22T15:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/2014\/08\/22\/mahiedine-mekhissi-benabbad-tempting-for-a-european-record-in-3000m-steeplechase\/"},"modified":"2014-08-22T15:30:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-22T15:30:00","slug":"mahiedine-mekhissi-benabbad-tempting-for-a-european-record-in-3000m-steeplechase","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/mahiedine-mekhissi-benabbad-tempting-for-a-european-record-in-3000m-steeplechase\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad tempting for a European record in 3000m steeplechase"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mekhissi now has set a new goal : in Brussels he aims to break the European 3000m steeplechase record and become the first European to break the 8 minutes mark. Only ten athletes in track history have ever run the 3000m steeplechase below 8 minutes. 8 of them were Kenyans, the others are the Moroccon Boulami and Saif Saeed Shaheen from Qatar, a former Kenyan who was known as Stephen Cherono.<\/p>\n<p>Both Boulami and Shaheen broke 3000m steeplechase at the Memorial Van Damme in Brussels, in 2001 and in 2004 respectively. Boulami ran 7:55.28 and Shaheen 7:53.63 which is still the actual World Record on the distance after almost 10 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>French steeplechaser Mahiedine Mekhissi Benabbad is looking for revenge in his favourite event...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-2981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-brussels"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2981"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brussels.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=2981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}