{"id":136,"date":"2014-07-01T18:35:24","date_gmt":"2014-07-01T18:35:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/?p=136"},"modified":"2014-07-01T21:11:36","modified_gmt":"2014-07-01T21:11:36","slug":"sharp-back-ready-for-zurich-defence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/news\/sharp-back-ready-for-zurich-defence","title":{"rendered":"Sharp back ready for Zurich defence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/files\/2014\/07\/sharp-helsinki.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-138\" title=\"Lynsey Sharp - Helsinki 2012\" src=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/files\/2014\/07\/sharp-helsinki.jpg\" alt=\"Lynsey Sharp - Helsinki 2012\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/files\/2014\/07\/sharp-helsinki.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/files\/2014\/07\/sharp-helsinki-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Two months ago she was in hospital but now, with a powerful turn of foot, Great Britain\u2019s Lynsey Sharp has shown just the type of form she is in to defend her 800m title at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Her performance at the British Championships in Birmingham, which doubled as the trials for the <a title=\"Europe in One\" href=\"http:\/\/www.globalbuzz.net\/europe\" target=\"_blank\">Europeans<\/a>, saw Sharp win in 2:01.40 from Alison Leonard, in 2:01.83, and Jenny Meadows, in 2:02.18.<\/p>\n<p>But it has been some journey following a tendon problem.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am enjoying being back racing, especially after the last 12 months having had surgery twice and I was in hospital on an IV drip in April,&#8221; said Sharp.<\/p>\n<p>She has run quicker this year, being seventh in the European Athletics rankings with 2:00.09, lists which are led by Russia\u2019s Yekaterina Poistogova with 1:58.55, but it was all about winning on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>If her rivals were watching, they will be aware of the way she controlled this race, which can be so key when it comes to the chase for medals this summer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two months ago she was in hospital but now, with a powerful turn of foot, Great Britain\u2019s Lynsey Sharp has shown just the type of form she is in to defend her 800m title at the European Athletics Championships in Zurich.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":138,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1,9,8],"tags":[85,92,91,93],"class_list":["post-136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-news","category-pre-event","category-track","tag-85","tag-european-athletics-championships","tag-lynsey-sharp","tag-zurich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=136"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":140,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136\/revisions\/140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.uk\/scotland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}