{"id":5303,"date":"2025-08-20T07:17:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:17:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/former-cattle-herder-wanyonyi-ready-to-eclipse-rudisha\/"},"modified":"2025-08-20T07:17:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-20T07:17:09","slug":"former-cattle-herder-wanyonyi-ready-to-eclipse-rudisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/former-cattle-herder-wanyonyi-ready-to-eclipse-rudisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Former cattle herder Wanyonyi ready to eclipse Rudisha"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><\/div>\n<p><span class=\"dateline\">PARIS &ndash; <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi thinks Kenyan compatriot David Rudisha&rsquo;s mythical 800m world record will soon fall, but modestly downplayed his own chances given the current strength in depth in the two-lap race.<\/p>\n<p>Rudisha set the world record of 1 minute and 40.91 seconds when he won gold at the 2012 London Games, one of the most iconic track and field moments in recent Olympic history.<\/p>\n<p>For the first time in more than a decade, there are a handful of middle distance stars seemingly capable of etching their own names as the event&rsquo;s leading light.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><sub>Former cattle herder Wanyonyi ready to eclipse Rudisha<\/sub><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PARIS &ndash; Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi thinks Kenyan compatriot David Rudisha&rsquo;s mythical 800m world record will soon fall, but modestly downplayed his own chances given the current strength in depth in the two-lap race. Rudisha set the world record of 1 minute and 40.91 seconds when he won gold at the 2012 London Games, one&#8230;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/former-cattle-herder-wanyonyi-ready-to-eclipse-rudisha\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Former cattle herder Wanyonyi ready to eclipse Rudisha&rdquo;<\/span> &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5304,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5303"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5303\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jobuzo.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}