{"id":18744,"date":"2008-03-10T01:43:56","date_gmt":"2008-03-10T01:43:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dr1.com\/new\/pages\/major-track-and-field-victory-for-dr\/"},"modified":"2008-03-10T01:43:56","modified_gmt":"2008-03-10T01:43:56","slug":"major-track-and-field-victory-for-dr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/03\/10\/major-track-and-field-victory-for-dr\/","title":{"rendered":"Major track and field victory for DR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> The Dominican relay team has won the bronze for the 4 x 100 meters relay in the 2008 12th IAAF World Indoor Championships that took place in Valencia, Spain &#8211; a major victory. The US won the gold with a time of 3:06.79 (James Davis, Jamaal Torrane, Greg Nixon, Kelly Willie), while Jamaica won silver with 3:07.69 (Michael Blackwood, Edino Steele, Adrian Findlay, DeWayne Barret), and the DR was right behind with 3:07.77, a new national record. Representing the DR were Arismendy Peguero, Carlos Santa, Pedro Mejia and Yoel Tapia. Poland, Great Britain and Russia followed. The victory augurs well for the Dominican team&#8217;s prospects in the 2008 Beijing Summer Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dominican relay team has won the bronze for the 4 x 100 meters relay in the 2008 12th IAAF World Indoor Championships that took place in Valencia, Spain &#8211; a major victory. The US won the gold with a time of 3:06.79 (James Davis, Jamaal Torrane, Greg Nixon, Kelly Willie), while Jamaica won silver &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2008\/03\/10\/major-track-and-field-victory-for-dr\/\" 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":[227,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18744"}],"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=18744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18744\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}