{"id":46901,"date":"2011-03-26T12:08:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T19:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=46901"},"modified":"2011-03-26T12:08:38","modified_gmt":"2011-03-26T19:08:38","slug":"cycling-sarah-hammer-wins-4th-individual-pursuit-world-title-in-dramatic-fashion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/?p=46901","title":{"rendered":"Cycling &#8211; Sarah Hammer wins 4th individual pursuit world title in dramatic fashion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: left;\">After winning the silver medal in the women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team pursuit just last night, Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif.\/OUCH) returned to competition at the UCI Track World Championships Friday and collected a gold medal in the 3,000-meter individual pursuit. For Hammer the world championship gold is her fourth, tying legendary American pursuiter Rebecca Twigg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">In Friday night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s gold medal final, Hammer had to dig deep as she found herself down by 3\/10ths of a second to the reigning Olympic silver medalist, Alison Shanks of New Zealand, heading into the final 1,000 meters of the race. Just as she did in 2006, 2007 and 2010 Hammer laid it down in the closing meters and earned her fourth women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s individual pursuit world title; by just nearly 3\/10ths of a second.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153This one was so, so special because\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0 &#8230;\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usacycling.org\/news\/user\/story.php?id=6032\" target=\"_blank\">Details<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\">www.stokednews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After winning the silver medal in the women\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s team pursuit just last night, Sarah Hammer (Temecula, Calif.\/OUCH) returned to competition at the UCI Track World Championships Friday and collected a gold medal in the 3,000-meter individual pursuit. For Hammer the world championship gold is her fourth, tying legendary American pursuiter Rebecca Twigg. In Friday night\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-46901","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cycling","category-road-bike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46901","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46901"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46901\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46902,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46901\/revisions\/46902"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46901"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46901"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.stokednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46901"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}