{"id":58365,"date":"2016-08-16T08:13:19","date_gmt":"2016-08-16T07:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=58365"},"modified":"2016-08-16T08:13:19","modified_gmt":"2016-08-16T07:13:19","slug":"wayde-van-niekerk-breaks-world-record-to-win-olympic-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wayde-van-niekerk-breaks-world-record-to-win-olympic-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Olympics 2016: Wayde van Niekerk breaks world record to win Olympic gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>South Africa&#8217;s Wayde van Niekerk broke Michael Johnson&#8217;s 400m world record to sensationally win Olympic gold at Rio 2016.<\/h1>\n<p>A world record was set in the men\u2019s 400m finals as South African Wayde van Niekerk finished in a time of 43.03 from the outside lane.<\/p>\n<p>Van Niekerk crossed the finish line ahead of 2012 London Games gold medalist Kirani James of Grenada who took silver and LaShawn Merritt of the U.S. won bronze.<\/p>\n<p>Van Niekerk, who won South Africa&#8217;s first gold medal of the Games, said:<\/p>\n<p>I have dreamed of this since I was a kid. I believed it was possible. I am just glad things went my way. I thank Michael Johnson for setting such a great example for us. I just did my best.&#8221;<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 10)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s Wayde van Niekerk broke Michael Johnson&#8217;s 400m world record to sensationally win Olympic gold at Rio 2016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":58366,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,127],"tags":[77494],"class_list":["post-58365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-sport","tag-rio-2016"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58365","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58365"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58365\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58366"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}