{"id":3915,"date":"2026-06-07T18:02:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:02:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/bouzayani-broke-the-competition-record-in-the-3000-meters-hurdles\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T18:02:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T18:02:28","slug":"bouzayani-broke-the-competition-record-in-the-3000-meters-hurdles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/bouzayani-broke-the-competition-record-in-the-3000-meters-hurdles\/","title":{"rendered":"Bouzayani broke the competition record in the 3000 meters hurdles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Tunisia\u2019s Marwa Bouzayani obliterated the meeting record with an exhibition of distance running in the women\u2019s 3000m steeplechase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Fourth in the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo last year, she went hard from the gun and left even the wave lights in her wake as she ran solo to a superb 8:59.28.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is the first ever sub nine-minute run in the discipline at the stadium and slashed more than five seconds from the previous meeting record of 9:04:34 held by Kenya\u2019s Hyvin Kiyeng since 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI feel very happy about the race today, a meeting record and the third time under 9 minutes this season,\u201d said the Tunisian afterwards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British runner Elise Thorner was a distant second in 9:11.01 and Gabrielle Jennings of USA was third in 9:12:02.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\">\n\n\n\n<p><strong>El Bakkali showed master class in men&#8217;s 3000m hurdles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>n the men\u2019s race, twice Olympic champion Soufiane El Bakkali of Morocco proved his race acumen, burning off the opposition in the closing lap to win in 8:10:40. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>World bronze medallist Edmund Serem of Kenya was second in 8:12.27 and Olympic bronze medallist Abraham Kibiwot was third in 8:12.75.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tunisia\u2019s Marwa Bouzayani obliterated the meeting record with an exhibition of distance...","protected":false},"author":75,"featured_media":3913,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-3915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-stockholm-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915","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"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/75"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3915"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stockholm.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}