{"id":3192,"date":"2021-07-14T04:37:48","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T04:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spicefmhoima.com\/?p=3192"},"modified":"2022-01-19T12:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T12:05:16","slug":"nanyondo-finishes-5th-at-london-diamond-league","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/2021\/07\/14\/nanyondo-finishes-5th-at-london-diamond-league\/","title":{"rendered":"Nanyondo Finishes 5th At London Diamond League"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Leilah Bbaale<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"mb-5 contents-status-4\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3193 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/AthleticsCommonwealthGamesDay8VNX5TeTw6HKl-300x197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/AthleticsCommonwealthGamesDay8VNX5TeTw6HKl-300x197.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/07\/AthleticsCommonwealthGamesDay8VNX5TeTw6HKl.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Uganda\u2019s middle-distance runner Winnie Nanyondo has finished 5th in the one-mile distance at London Diamond league in Gateshead, England.<\/p>\n<p>Nanyondo, 27 ran a time of 4:29:08 in a race that was won by America\u2019s middle distance elite runner Kate Grace who posted a world-leading mark at 4:27:04. Grace was followed by Snowden Katie at 4:28:04.<\/p>\n<p>The commonwealth 800m bronze medalist entered the competition seeking to perform better over the mile distance, however, she failed to beat her personal best of 4:18.65 which is the National record in the 1-mile race.<\/p>\n<p>Before the event in London, Nanyondo had commanded the fourth position in the 1500 m race at the Monaco Diamond League (DL) Meeting in France on Friday. Here she posted 4:1:18 behind Kenyan Faith Kipyegon and Sifan Hassan.<\/p>\n<p>The middle-distance runner wanted to improve her time ahead of the Olympic games.<\/p>\n<p>Nanyondo is one of the few athletes who qualified for a double in the forthcoming summer games. She will compete in the 800m as well as the 1500m.<\/p>\n<p>Nanyondo\u2019s personal best time in the 1500m stands at 3:59.56 which was set at the Rabat DL Meeting in Morocco.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Uganda has only qualified three middle-distance runners, Winnie Nanyondo, Halima Nakaayi of 800m and Ronald Musagala who will feature in the 1500m.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Leilah Bbaale Uganda\u2019s middle-distance runner Winnie Nanyondo has finished 5th in the one-mile distance at London Diamond league in Gateshead, England. Nanyondo, 27 ran a time of 4:29:08 in a race that was won by America\u2019s middle distance elite runner Kate Grace who posted a world-leading mark at 4:27:04. Grace was followed by Snowden [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":3193,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3192","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3192"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3305,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3192\/revisions\/3305"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spicemedia.ug\/spicefm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}