{"id":199,"date":"2004-08-16T15:03:49","date_gmt":"2004-08-16T22:03:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2004-08-16T15:03:49","modified_gmt":"2004-08-16T22:03:49","slug":"go-bears-natalie-coughlin-wins-the-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/2004\/08\/16\/go-bears-natalie-coughlin-wins-the-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Go Bears! Natalie Coughlin wins the Gold!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A5249-2004Aug16.html\">Go Bears!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Associated Press<br \/>\nMonday, August 16, 2004; 1:11 PM<\/p>\n<p>ATHENS, Greece &#8211; American Natalie Coughlin won Olympic gold in the 100-meter backstroke Monday night. Coughlin, the only woman ever to swim under 1 minute in the event, finished first in 1 minute, 0.37 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, who swims at Auburn University in Alabama, earned the silver in 1:00.50. Laure Manaudou of France took bronze in 1:00.88.<\/p>\n<p>Manaudou had won the 400 freestyle Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Coughlin, of Concord, Calif., broke the minute-barrier for the first time in July 2002, going 59.58 to lower the world record of 1:00.16 set by He Cihong of China. Coughlin did it again at last month&#8217;s U.S. trials, when she swam in 59.85.<\/p>\n<p>The American owns six of the top 10 times in the event, but didn&#8217;t need a sub-minute time to win her first gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>Haley Cope of Chico, Calif., was eighth and last in 1:01.76.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go Bears! Associated Press Monday, August 16, 2004; 1:11 PM ATHENS, Greece &#8211; American Natalie Coughlin won Olympic gold in the 100-meter backstroke Monday night. Coughlin, the only woman ever to swim under 1 minute in the event, finished first in 1 minute, 0.37 seconds. Kirsty Coventry of Zimbabwe, who swims at Auburn University in Alabama, earned the silver in 1:00.50. Laure Manaudou of France took bronze in 1:00.88. Manaudou had won the 400 freestyle Sunday night. Coughlin, of Concord,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-berkeley","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4uks-3d","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cyrusfarivar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}