{"id":16217,"date":"2023-08-24T15:21:27","date_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/?p=16217"},"modified":"2023-08-24T15:21:39","modified_gmt":"2023-08-24T13:21:39","slug":"double-world-record-holder-competes-at-istaf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/double-world-record-holder-competes-at-istaf\/","title":{"rendered":"Double world record holder competes at ISTAF!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Exceptional athlete Letesenbet Gidey will compete in the 5,000 metres at the ISTAF in the Berlin Olympic Stadium on 3 September 2023. The Ethiopian is already one of the best runners of all time and currently holds the world records for the 10,000 metres (29:01.03 min) and the half marathon (62:52 min). Letesenbet Gidey also ran a world record over 5,000 metres in 2020 with 14:06.62 minutes. At the World Championships in Budapest last week, the 25-year-old won silver in the 10,000 metres.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; I\u2019m happy to close my track season by competing in the 5000m at ISTAF Berlin,&#8221; says Letesenbet Gidey, who will be given optimal conditions for a fast race in the Olympic Stadium. Her team is installing &#8220;wavelights&#8221; around the blue track. The coloured LED lights act as additional &#8220;pacemakers&#8221; throughout the race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exceptional athlete Letesenbet Gidey will compete in the 5,000 metres at the ISTAF in the Berlin Olympic Stadium on 3 September 2023. The Ethiopian is already one of the best runners of all time and currently holds the world records for the 10,000 metres (29:01.03 min) and the half marathon (62:52 min). Letesenbet Gidey also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":16218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-allgemein-en"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.istaf.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}