{"id":177991,"date":"2024-08-06T07:57:08","date_gmt":"2024-08-06T05:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-world-champ-moraa-bags-bronze-as-kenyas-medal-hunt-at-paris-olympics-officially-on\/"},"modified":"2024-08-06T07:57:08","modified_gmt":"2024-08-06T05:57:08","slug":"kenya-world-champ-moraa-bags-bronze-as-kenyas-medal-hunt-at-paris-olympics-officially-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenya-world-champ-moraa-bags-bronze-as-kenyas-medal-hunt-at-paris-olympics-officially-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya: World Champ Moraa Bags Bronze As Kenya&#8217;s Medal Hunt At Paris Olympics Officially On"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Mary Moraa added to Kenya&#8217;s medal tally at the Paris Olympics when she finished third in the women&#8217;s 800m on Monday night.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">The world champion clocked 1:57.42 to bag bronze as Great Briton Keely Hodgkinson clocked 1:56.72 to grab gold, having led from gun to tape.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Ethiopia&#8217;s Tsige Duguma clocked a personal best of 1:57.15 to come second and win silver.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Moraa&#8217;s silver was a huge improvement to her last time at the Tokyo Olympics in 2020 where she failed to sail past the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">She&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408060043.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Mary Moraa added to Kenya&#8217;s medal tally at the Paris Olympics when she finished third in the women&#8217;s 800m on Monday night. The world champion clocked 1:57.42 to bag bronze as Great Briton Keely Hodgkinson clocked 1:56.72 to grab gold, having led from gun to tape. Ethiopia&#8217;s Tsige Duguma clocked a personal best [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":177992,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,10690,6632,7553,6644,4688,430,6097,12337,39373,257,5982,12022,15620,254,5093],"class_list":["post-177991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bags","tag-bronze","tag-champ","tag-hunt","tag-kenya","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-medal","tag-moraa","tag-news","tag-officially","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-south-africa-today","tag-world"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}