{"id":162378,"date":"2021-08-03T08:03:24","date_gmt":"2021-08-03T12:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/?p=162378"},"modified":"2021-08-03T10:29:15","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T14:29:15","slug":"marileidy-paulino-goes-for-gold-in-the-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/03\/marileidy-paulino-goes-for-gold-in-the-tokyo-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Marileidy Paulino goes for gold in the Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/Marileidy-Paulino-Twitter-e1628000937209.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-162413\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Marileidy Paulino won her heat in the 400m preliminaries in 50.06 and turned in the competitors&#8217; best time. Her season best is 49.99.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paulino is ranked 25th in the world in the event. She will compete on Wednesday, 4 August at 6:30am in the semifinals. The final is scheduled for 6 August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Paulino already has a silver medal on 31 July in the 4 x 400m relay. On 31 July, together with Anabel Medina, the two became the first Dominican women to medal in an Olympic Games. The Dominican athletics team is coached by two-time Olympic gold medal winner, Felix S\u00e1nchez (400 m hurdles, Athens 2004 and London 2012). Paulino was trained by Cuban Yaseen Perez Gomez.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Teammate Yancarlos Martinez also qualified for the semi-finals in the 200 m on 3 August 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/olympics.com\/tokyo-2020\/olympic-games\/en\/results\/athletics\/athlete-profile-n1388966-paulino-marileidy.htm\">Olympics <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>3 August 2021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marileidy Paulino won her heat in the 400m preliminaries in 50.06 and turned in the competitors&#8217; best time. Her season best is 49.99. Paulino is ranked 25th in the world in the event. She will compete on Wednesday, 4 August at 6:30am in the semifinals. The final is scheduled for 6 August. Paulino already has &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2021\/08\/03\/marileidy-paulino-goes-for-gold-in-the-tokyo-olympics\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[290,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162378"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162378"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":162416,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162378\/revisions\/162416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}