{"id":11243,"date":"2023-07-05T09:19:52","date_gmt":"2023-07-05T09:19:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jake-wightman-british-athlete-will-not-defend-world-1500m-title-in-budapest\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T09:19:53","modified_gmt":"2023-07-05T09:19:53","slug":"jake-wightman-british-athlete-will-not-defend-world-1500m-title-in-budapest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/jake-wightman-british-athlete-will-not-defend-world-1500m-title-in-budapest\/","title":{"rendered":"Jake Wightman: British athlete will not defend world 1500m title in Budapest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1\">\n<table class=\"gs-o-table story-body__table\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2\">\n<thead class=\"gs-o-table__head gel-brevier \" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.0\">\n<tr class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.0.$row-0\"\/><\/thead>\n<tbody class=\"gel-long-primer \" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1\">\n<tr class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-0\">\n<td class=\"gs-o-table__cell\" colspan=\"1\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-0.$td-0\"><strong data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-0.$td-0.0:0\">Venue: <\/strong><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-0.$td-0.0:1\">Manchester Regional Track Arena <\/span><strong data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-0.$td-0.0:2\">Dates: <\/strong><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-0.$td-0.0:3\">8-9 July<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-1\">\n<td class=\"gs-o-table__cell\" colspan=\"1\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-1.$td-0\"><strong data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-1.$td-0.0:0\">Coverage: <\/strong><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$table-2.1.$row-1.$td-0.0:1\">Watch live on the BBC Sport website and app or on the BBC iPlayer<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p role=\"introduction\" class=\"qa-introduction gel-pica-bold\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">Britain&#8217;s Jake Wightman will not defend his 1500m title at the World Championships in Budapest in August after an injury-disrupted season.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5\"><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-5.0\">The 28-year-old went on to claim Commonwealth 1500m bronze and European 800m silver, but suffered a stress fracture of his foot earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6\"><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-6.0\">Wightman is yet to race this season and was going to miss the UK Championships.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8\"><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-8.0\">As defending champion, he was guaranteed a place in Budapest despite missing those trials, but has opted not to run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9\"><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.0\">&#8220;I&#8217;ve always felt as though time has been on my side to overcome my problems fully, however it has run out,&#8221; Wightman <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/CuTnefYIz7B\/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D\" class=\"story-body__external-link\" title=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.$link-2\"><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.$link-2.0\">wrote on Instagram.<\/span><span class=\"gs-u-ml- gel-icon\" style=\"height:15px;width:15px;\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.$link-2.1\"><svg viewbox=\"0 0 32 32\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.$link-2.1.0\"><title data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.$link-2.1.0.0\">external-link<\/title><path d=\"M12 0v5h11.5l-5 5H0v22h22V17.5l-2 2V30H2V12h14.5l-7.8 7.7 3.6 3.6L27 8.5V20h5V0H12z\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-9.$link-2.1.0.1\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10\"><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-10.0\">&#8220;This means I&#8217;m sadly going to be unable to compete at the Worlds, which has been really gutting to come to terms with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11\"><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-11.0\">&#8220;There are some risks I could have taken to be on that Budapest start line, however the potential to jeopardise my Olympic year makes this the obvious decision.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12\"><span data-reactid=\".p6guee5ej6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-12.0\">The decision follows his withdrawal from last week&#8217;s Diamond League meet in Lausanne, which was to be his comeback race.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/66105344?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=KARANGA\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Venue: Manchester Regional Track Arena Dates: 8-9 July Coverage: Watch live on the BBC Sport website and app or on the BBC iPlayer Britain&#8217;s Jake Wightman will not defend his 1500m title at the World Championships in Budapest in August after an injury-disrupted season. The 28-year-old went on to claim Commonwealth 1500m bronze and European [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11243"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11245,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11243\/revisions\/11245"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}