{"id":1552,"date":"2013-08-19T06:18:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/2013\/08\/19\/twelve-world-champions-will-compete-at-dn-galan\/"},"modified":"2013-08-19T06:18:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-19T06:18:00","slug":"twelve-world-champions-will-compete-at-dn-galan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/twelve-world-champions-will-compete-at-dn-galan\/","title":{"rendered":"Twelve World Champions will compete at DN Galan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DN Galan is also delighted to announce the participation of &nbsp;the winner of the men\u2019s 1500m, Kenyan, Asbel Kiprop who crossed the finish line a half second in front of the rest of the field.&nbsp; The women\u2019s javelin was won by Christine Obergf\u00f6ll from Germany who threw a world-leading 69.05.&nbsp;Swedish young talent, Sofi Flink, finished in 10th place after breaking the Swedish record to reach the final.&nbsp;Both Obergf\u00f6ll and Flink will be at Stockholm Stadium on Thursday which also happens to be the German\u2019s birthday.<\/p>\n<p>DN Galan is certainly hosting a starstudded field!<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 It is fantastic to be able to present so many World Champions and medallists from Moscow.&nbsp; It bodes well for an exciting competition including some interesting grudge matches, predicted DN Galan\u2019s Head of Operations, Anders Tallgren.<\/p>\n<p><em>Johan Stor\u00e5kers<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>DN Galan can now proudly present twelve individual World Champions from Moscow:<\/strong><br \/>\u2022 Abeba Aregawi, SWE 1500 m (will 800 m at DN Galan)<br \/>\u2022 Eunice Sum, KEN, 800 m<br \/>\u2022 David Oliver, USA, 110 m hurdles<br \/>\u2022 Meseret Defar, ETH, 5000 m (will run 3000 m at DN Galan)<br \/>\u2022 LaShawn Merritt, USA, 400 m<br \/>\u2022 Valerie Adams, NZL, Shot Put<br \/>\u2022 Asbel Kiprop, KEN, 1500 m<br \/>\u2022 Zuzana Hejnova, CZE, 400 m hurdles<br \/>\u2022 Aleksandr Menkov, RUS, Long Jump<br \/>\u2022 Christina Obergf\u00f6ll, GER, Javelin Throw<br \/>\u2022 Svetlana Shkolina, GER, High Jump<br \/>\u2022 Caterine Ibarg\u00fcen, COL, Triple Jump<\/p>\n<link \/Templates\/IAAFDiamondLeague\/PageTypes\/StandardContentNewsPageType.aspx?id=71&#038;epslanguage=sv>More news from DN Galan<\/link>\n<link \/Templates\/IAAFDiamondLeague\/PageTypes\/StandardContentPageType.aspx?id=79&#038;epslanguage=sv>Tickets for DN Galan on August 22<\/link>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The IAAF World Championships came to a close last Sunday and many of the newly crowned World...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1552","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stockholm"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1552"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}