{"id":438530,"date":"2023-06-25T14:15:36","date_gmt":"2023-06-25T18:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=438530"},"modified":"2023-06-25T14:45:43","modified_gmt":"2023-06-25T18:45:43","slug":"belgian-shot-putter-had-to-run-100m-hurdles-to-save-her-team","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/belgian-shot-putter-had-to-run-100m-hurdles-to-save-her-team\/","title":{"rendered":"Belgian shot putter had to run 100m hurdles to save her team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Extraordinary scenes developed at the European Championships in Poland when the Belgium shot put and hammer throw champion Jolien Boumkwo displayed great team spirit, stepping up to run a 100 metres hurdles race to save her team from getting disqualified.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is great! After a team mate withdrew from the100m women&#8217;s hurdles, shot putter Jolien Boumkwo took part so Belgium would get points at the European Athletics Team Championships!<\/p>\n<p>No one cared who won, all eyes were on her! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/MEzPLtGzmw\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/MEzPLtGzmw<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Rohith Nair (@RohithNair) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RohithNair\/status\/1672974689013223425?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\nBoumkwo had to take the place in the sprint because the two hurdlers in the team pulled out due to injury.<\/p>\n<p>Had no Belgian athlete competed in the event, the team would have been disqualified.<\/p>\n<p>The 29-year-old finished the race without knocking any of the hurdles down in 32.81 seconds, 19 seconds after Spanish sprinter Teresa Errandonea who won with 13.22.<\/p>\n<p>Boumkwo was applauded by the audience and congratulated by her rivals as she earned two points for the team.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Extraordinary scenes developed at the European Championships in Poland when the Belgium shot put and hammer throw champion Jolien Boumkwo displayed great team [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":438531,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[19028],"news_category":[14084],"gn_keywords":[19029],"acf":{"announce":"Jolien Boumkwo finished 15 seconds behind the winner, but didn't knock any of the hurdles","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438530"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/137"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=438530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/438530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/438531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=438530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=438530"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=438530"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=438530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}