{"id":485978,"date":"2024-08-04T15:09:18","date_gmt":"2024-08-04T19:09:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=485978"},"modified":"2024-08-04T15:09:48","modified_gmt":"2024-08-04T19:09:48","slug":"bobby-finke-shatters-1500-meters-world-record-to-clinch-gold","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/bobby-finke-shatters-1500-meters-world-record-to-clinch-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Finke shatters 1,500 meters world record to clinch gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>American swimmer Bobby Finke shattered the men&#8217;s 1,500 meters freestyle world record, retaining his Olympic gold medal in a spectacular performance that elevated the United States to the top of the medal table at the Paris pool with two events left.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bobby Finke is the only man to bring home an individual swimming gold medal for the USA \ud83d\udc4f \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/uiTNpY4025\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/uiTNpY4025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ESPN (@espn) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/espn\/status\/1820159964536578353?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">August 4, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Finke completed the grueling 30-lap race in 14 minutes, 30.67 seconds at La Defense Arena, surpassing the previous record of 14:31.02 set by Sun Yang at the London Games 12 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Italy&#8217;s Gregorio Paltrinieri claimed silver, finishing 3.88 seconds behind Finke, while Daniel Wiffen of Ireland, the 800m gold medalist, secured bronze. Finke&#8217;s victory made him the first male swimmer to win back-to-back Olympic golds in the 1,500 meters freestyle since Australia&#8217;s Grant Hackett in 2000-04 and the first American since Mike Burton in 1968-72.<\/p>\n<p>This achievement marked the U.S. team&#8217;s seventh gold medal of the meet, allowing them to surpass Australia and take the lead in the medal standings on the final night of competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American swimmer Bobby Finke shattered the men&#8217;s 1,500 meters freestyle world record, retaining his Olympic gold medal in a spectacular performance that elevated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":137,"featured_media":485979,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[18356,20557],"news_category":[20292],"gn_keywords":[18357,20559],"acf":{"announce":"American iron-man became the first male swimmer to win back-to-back Olympic golds in the 1,500 meters freestyle","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\/485978"}],"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=485978"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485978\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":485981,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/485978\/revisions\/485981"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/485979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485978"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=485978"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=485978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}