{"id":13019,"date":"2024-01-31T01:03:51","date_gmt":"2024-01-31T01:03:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dwain-chambers-to-race-at-uk-indoors-championships-aged-45\/"},"modified":"2024-01-31T01:03:52","modified_gmt":"2024-01-31T01:03:52","slug":"dwain-chambers-to-race-at-uk-indoors-championships-aged-45","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/dwain-chambers-to-race-at-uk-indoors-championships-aged-45\/","title":{"rendered":"Dwain Chambers to race at UK Indoors Championships aged 45"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-hmf8ql-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">Former world indoor champion Dwain Chambers is set to race in the 60m at the UK Indoor Championships at the age of 45.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chambers qualified for February&#8217;s event by running 6.81 seconds at a meet in Lee Valley earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He was banned for doping in 2004 but returned to the sport in 2006 and won the 60m world indoor title in 2010.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The qualifying time for the World Indoor Championships, which take place in Glasgow in March, is 6.58secs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Chambers, who last ran for Great Britain in 2014, attempted to break into American football twice &#8211;  during his two-year doping ban and again in 2007 &#8211; before an unsuccessful trial spell at rugby league club Castleford Tigers in 2008.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He took gold at the World Indoors in Doha in 2010 and bronze two years later in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He officially retired in July 2017 but also ran in the British Indoors 60m Championships in 2019 only to be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/47184895\" class=\"ssrcss-co0e25-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">disqualified for a false start<\/a> in semi-finals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sport\/athletics\/68139803\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former world indoor champion Dwain Chambers is set to race in the 60m at the UK Indoor Championships at the age of 45. Chambers qualified for February&#8217;s event by running 6.81 seconds at a meet in Lee Valley earlier this year. He was banned for doping in 2004 but returned to the sport in 2006 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13020,"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\/13019"}],"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=13019"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13021,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13019\/revisions\/13021"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}