{"id":10516,"date":"2017-08-06T07:25:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-06T12:25:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/?p=10516"},"modified":"2017-08-06T08:23:57","modified_gmt":"2017-08-06T13:23:57","slug":"omar-mcleod-wins-heat-1-mens-110m-hurdles-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/sports\/2017\/08\/omar-mcleod-wins-heat-1-mens-110m-hurdles-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Omar McLeod Wins Heat 1: Men’s 110m Hurdles World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"

Omar McLeod won his heat of the Men’s 110m Hurdles and will advance to the semifinals at World Championships.<\/p>\n

McLeod, the 110m Hurdles Olympic champion, displayed his impressive form to win with a time of\u00a013.23. The\u00a0semifinals\u00a0will start later today at 3:10 PM ET\/ 2:10 PM ECT.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/streamable.com\/h8mbl<\/p>\n

Mcleod\u00a0is bidding to become the first 110m hurdler to hold both the Olympic and World title simultaneously.\u00a0is bidding to become the first 110m hurdler to hold both the Olympic and World\u00a0title simultaneously.\u00a0He clocked a\u00a0world-leading time, new personal best, and the fifth fastest time<\/a>\u00a0[12.90] in 110m Hurdles\u2019 history all in one race at the Jamaica National Senior Trials in Kingston last month.<\/p>\n

Teammate\u00a0Ronald Levy, a 13.05 performer this season – clattered through the first flight of hurdles and pulled up in Heat 4 of the\u00a0Men’s 110m Hurdles, losing his opportunity for a medal Monday’s final.\u00a0Andrew Pozzi won the\u00a0heat in 13.28.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/streamable.com\/esxck<\/p>\n

Hansle Parchment<\/strong> finished second in his heat with a time of\u00a013.42 behind Spaniard Orlando Ortega, the Olympic silver medallist, who won with a time of\u00a013.37 seconds.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/streamable.com\/zg7qz<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Omar McLeod won his heat of the Men’s 110m Hurdles and will advance to the semifinals at World Championships. McLeod, the 110m Hurdles Olympic champion, displayed his impressive form to win with a time of\u00a013.23. The\u00a0semifinals\u00a0will start later today at 3:10 PM ET\/ 2:10 PM ECT. https:\/\/streamable.com\/h8mbl Mcleod\u00a0is bidding to become the first 110m hurdler […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10516"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10527,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10516\/revisions\/10527"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iamajamaican.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}