{"id":21770,"date":"2024-08-29T17:11:05","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:11:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/louie-hinchliffe-british-olympic-sprinter-to-turn-professional\/"},"modified":"2024-08-29T17:11:06","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T17:11:06","slug":"louie-hinchliffe-british-olympic-sprinter-to-turn-professional","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/louie-hinchliffe-british-olympic-sprinter-to-turn-professional\/","title":{"rendered":"Louie Hinchliffe: British Olympic sprinter to turn professional"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">British sprinter Louie Hinchliffe has announced his decision to turn professional after winning an Olympic medal in Paris this summer.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The 22-year-old has enjoyed a dramatic rise, culminating in helping the British relay team take bronze in the men&#8217;s 4&#215;100 metres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hinchliffe will forego his final year at the University of Houston &#8211; where he trained under nine-time Olympic gold medallist Carl Lewis &#8211; to pursue sprinting professionally.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In June he became US college (NCAA) 100m champion after clocking 9.95secs, and claimed victory at the British Championships later that month to qualify for the Paris Games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Hinchliffe just missed out on a place in the 100m final, but claimed a medal with bronze in the relay event alongside team-mates Zharnel Hughes, Jeremiah Azu and Nethaneel Mitchell-Blake.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/athletics\/articles\/cn8l7xl1ljro\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>British sprinter Louie Hinchliffe has announced his decision to turn professional after winning an Olympic medal in Paris this summer. The 22-year-old has enjoyed a dramatic rise, culminating in helping the British relay team take bronze in the men&#8217;s 4&#215;100 metres. Hinchliffe will forego his final year at the University of Houston &#8211; where he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21771,"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\/21770"}],"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=21770"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21772,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21770\/revisions\/21772"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kede.com.br\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}