{"id":241611,"date":"2025-09-18T07:28:45","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T11:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=241611"},"modified":"2025-09-18T09:03:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T13:03:15","slug":"alexander-ogando-is-in-the-world-athletics-semi-finals-in-the-200m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/09\/18\/alexander-ogando-is-in-the-world-athletics-semi-finals-in-the-200m\/","title":{"rendered":"Alexander Ogando makes the finals in the World Athletics 200m"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alexander-Ogando-Diario-Libre-1024x569.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-241633\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alexander-Ogando-Diario-Libre-1024x569.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alexander-Ogando-Diario-Libre-300x167.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alexander-Ogando-Diario-Libre-768x427.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alexander-Ogando-Diario-Libre-1536x853.png 1536w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Alexander-Ogando-Diario-Libre.png 1782w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Dominican sprinter Alexander Ogando made it with 19.98 to the finals of the 200m event in the World Athletics Championship taking place in Tokyo, Japan. He will next compete in the finals on 19 September at 10pm Dominican time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His contenders are: <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Noah Lyles (USA), Bryan Levell (Jamaica), Kenneth Bednarek (USA), Letside Tebogo (Botswana), Zharnel Hughes (Great Britain), Sinesipho Dambile (South Africa), Tapiwanashe Marakarawu (Zimbabwe). <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ogando is coached by Felix Sanchez, the Dominican Republic\u2019s two-time Olympic gold medal winner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The men\u2019s final is scheduled for 19 September at 10pm RD time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/worldathletics.org\/competitions\/world-athletics-championships\/tokyo25\/live\/7190593\/33893\/summary\">World Athletics<\/a><br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>18 September 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dominican sprinter Alexander Ogando made it with 19.98 to the finals of the 200m event in the World Athletics Championship taking place in Tokyo, Japan. He will next compete in the finals on 19 September at 10pm Dominican time. His contenders are: Noah Lyles (USA), Bryan Levell (Jamaica), Kenneth Bednarek (USA), Letside Tebogo (Botswana), Zharnel &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/09\/18\/alexander-ogando-is-in-the-world-athletics-semi-finals-in-the-200m\/\" 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":[337,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241611"}],"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=241611"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":241635,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241611\/revisions\/241635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}