{"id":1407,"date":"2013-03-22T20:04:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-22T20:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/2013\/03\/22\/golden-gala-2013-entitled-to-pietro-mennea\/"},"modified":"2013-03-22T20:04:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-22T20:04:00","slug":"golden-gala-2013-entitled-to-pietro-mennea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/golden-gala-2013-entitled-to-pietro-mennea\/","title":{"rendered":"Golden Gala 2013 entitled to Pietro Mennea"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The 2013 <strong>Golden Gala<\/strong> edition will be entitled to <strong>Pietro Mennea<\/strong>: <em>\u201cIt was an obvious choice to make this tribute to a great champion<\/em> \u2013 says FIDAL President, Alfio<strong> Giomi<\/strong> \u2013 <em>a symbol of our Sports who was also the protagonist of the Golden Gala first edition after the Olympic gold in Moscow<\/em>\u201d. Mennea competed three times at the Golden Gala, &nbsp;winning twice in the 200m, in 1980 and 1983. In 1980, at the very first edition of the meeting he ran 20.01 in the 200, &nbsp;while Don Quarrie finished second behind him. Next 6 June <strong>Usain Bolt<\/strong>, 200m world record holder, will run on the Olympic Stadium track. Mennea scored 19.72 in Mexico City, a world record that stayed unbroken for 17 years between 1979 and 1996.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Next 6 June, the meeting will be dedicated to italian Olympic champion in Moscow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-1407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rome"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1407"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rome.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=1407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}