{"id":49351,"date":"2026-08-17T17:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/rai-benjamin-returns-to-the-hurdles-in-lausanne\/"},"modified":"2026-08-17T17:45:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-17T15:45:00","slug":"rai-benjamin-returns-to-the-hurdles-in-lausanne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/rai-benjamin-returns-to-the-hurdles-in-lausanne\/","title":{"rendered":"Rai Benjamin returns to the hurdles\u2026 in Lausanne!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last-minute star guest Rai Benjamin will compete in his one and only 400m hurdles race of the season in Lausanne.\u00a0The American is one of the three giants of the discipline, alongside Karsten Warholm and Alison dos Santos. This year, however, he has chosen to focus mainly on the flat 400m, notably winning in London.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Seeing him back over the hurdles at Athletissima, one year after his world title in Tokyo, promises to be a thrilling prospect. Benjamin is the second-fastest athlete in history over 400m hurdles, with a time of 46.17.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Athletissima 400m hurdles will be held as an additional event. It is a great honour that Benjamin has chosen Lausanne for his only outing over the hurdles this season.\u00a0Can he challenge dos Santos\u2019 2026 world-leading time of 46.48?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last-minute star guest Rai Benjamin will compete in his one and only 400m hurdles race of the season in Lausanne.\u00a0The American is one of the three giants of the discipline, alongside Karsten Warholm and Alison dos Santos. This year, however, he has chosen to focus mainly on the flat 400m, notably winning in London. Seeing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":49350,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49351","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-non-classifiee"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49351","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49351"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49351\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49350"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49351"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49351"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/athletissima.ch\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49351"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}