{"id":850,"date":"2019-05-20T14:16:30","date_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/2019\/05\/20\/rabat-manyonga-and-echevarria-set-for-long-jump-showdown\/"},"modified":"2019-05-20T14:16:30","modified_gmt":"2019-05-20T14:16:30","slug":"rabat-manyonga-and-echevarria-set-for-long-jump-showdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/rabat-manyonga-and-echevarria-set-for-long-jump-showdown\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabat: Manyonga and Echevarria set for long jump showdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Flying South African Manyonga has held an iron grip on the Diamond Trophy since 2017, and snatched victory from the jaws of defeat in last year\u2019s dramatic Diamond League Final.<\/p>\n<p>Rabat will be an opportunity for him to take a little revenge after being forced to abandon in Shanghai, which he holds the record, following gastric problems.<\/p>\n<p>He will no doubt have one eye on the meeting record of 8.38m, which is currently held jointly by Morocco\u2019s Yahya Berrabah and fellow South African Ruswahl Samaai.<\/p>\n<p>Yet he will also have to face rising Cuban star Juan Miguel Echevarria, who stunned the world when he jumped a wind-assisted 8.83m at the Stockholm Diamond League last season.<\/p>\n<p>Echevarria backed that up by jumping an (also wind-assisted) 8.92m in March this year, and is now a genuine contender to challenge for Mike Powell\u2019s long-standing world record of 8.95m.<\/p>\n<p>With Manyonga and Echevarria set to lock horns, it promises to be an explosive battle at the foot of the main stand at the Prince Moulay Abdellah stadium.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sixth stop on the Road to the Final promises a mouth-watering clash of the titans in the...","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"city":[],"class_list":["post-850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-rabat"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=850"},{"taxonomy":"city","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rabat.diamondleague.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/city?post=850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}