{"id":9088,"date":"2019-09-27T15:05:35","date_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:05:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=9088"},"modified":"2019-09-27T15:05:37","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T13:05:37","slug":"africas-track-and-field-stars-in-medal-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/africas-track-and-field-stars-in-medal-hunt\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa&#8217;s Track And Field Stars In Medal Hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><em>Unlike in previous years, where Kenya has dominated the charge at the world athletics championship, this year\u2019s edition is likely to see a multi-pronged challenge from several African countries<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The event takes place in Qatar from Friday and concludes on 6 October 2019, with the action to be broadcast live on SuperSport.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>East Africa and West Africa are likely to dominate the charge of Africa, but Botswana\u2019s Nijel Amos, the Olympic 800m silver medallist, will be a strong contender. In July he ran a scorching 1:41.89 in Monaco, his fastest time in seven years, so brings outstanding form to Doha.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Meanwhile, Commonwealth 100m champion Akani Simbine will also be out to stake a claim among the world\u2019s best.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The South African dipped under 10 seconds in Berlin last month but will probably have to produce somewhere around his 9.92 season best to contend for a medal in a strong field headed by new sensation Christian Coleman of the US.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Other continental stars to keep an eye on include Nigerian\u2019s Tobi Amusan, the 2018 Commonwealth and 2019 African 100m hurdles champion; Selemon Barega, Ethiopia\u2019s 19-year-old 5000m phenomenon; Kenya\u2019s Beatrice Kipkoech, who last year shattered the 3000m steeplechase world record; reigning 5000m world champion Hellen Obiri of Kenya; and, Ivory Coast\u2019s Marie Jose Talou, who will attempt the sprint double, having bagged silver in both 100m and 200m at the last edition, in London.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The action, which starts at 15:30 (CAT) on Friday, will be broadcast on SuperSport 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unlike in previous years, where Kenya has dominated the charge at the world athletics championship, this year\u2019s edition is likely to see a multi-pronged challenge from several African countries The event takes place in Qatar from Friday and concludes on 6 October 2019, with the action to be broadcast live on SuperSport. East Africa and&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2019\/09\/27\/africas-track-and-field-stars-in-medal-hunt\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Africa&#8217;s Track And Field Stars In Medal Hunt<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[149],"class_list":["post-9088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-supersport","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9088\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}