{"id":196222,"date":"2016-03-05T13:39:11","date_gmt":"2016-03-05T13:39:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=196222"},"modified":"2016-03-05T13:39:11","modified_gmt":"2016-03-05T13:39:11","slug":"nadia-eke-sets-new-national-indoor-triple-jump-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=196222","title":{"rendered":"Nadia Eke sets new national indoor triple jump record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghanaian triple jumper Nadia Eke has set a new national record at an event in New York on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She jumped a distance of 13.49m to break the old record of 13.48m held by France-based Mathile Boateng.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The feat has thus qualified Eke to the African Seniors Championships which will be held in South Africa in June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eke is now the national record holder in both the indoor and outdoor triple jump events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Her record is the 12th national record to be broken by athletes in several events across track and field. In February, Emmanuel Dasor broke the national 400m indoor record with a time of 46.21 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The old one was held by Solomon Amegatcher who had a time of 46.60 and was set in 1993.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dasor also set a new national record in the men\u2019s indoor 200m with a time of 20.89 seconds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Dasor set these records at the Universities Conference Championships in Alabama.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Nathan Quao\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Information from the Ghana Athletics Association was used in this report.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian triple jumper Nadia Eke has set a new national record at an event in New York on Friday. She jumped a distance of 13.49m to break the old record of 13.48m held by France-based Mathile Boateng. The feat has thus qualified Eke to the African Seniors Championships which will be held in South Africa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196222\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}