{"id":894527,"date":"2026-09-13T19:02:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:02:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894527\/"},"modified":"2026-09-13T19:02:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-13T19:02:14","slug":"canadas-arop-places-second-in-mens-800m-at-world-athletics-ultimate-championship-fraser-valley-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/894527\/","title":{"rendered":"Canada\u2019s Arop places second in men\u2019s 800m at world athletics ultimate championship | Fraser Valley Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789326134_760_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kenya&#8217;s Emmanuel Wanyonyi crosses the finish line ahead of Algeria&#8217;s Djamel Sedjati and Canada&#8217;s Marco Arop, right, to win the men&#8217;s 800 meters final at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Saturday, Sept. 20, 2025. (AP Photo\/Matthias Schrader)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tSep 13, 2026 | 11:47 AM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>BUDAPEST \u2014 Canada\u2019s Marco Arop finished second in the men\u2019s 800 metres at the world athletics ultimate championship on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The Edmonton native crossed the finish line in one minute 42.28 seconds. Arop, 27, is a three-time world championship medallist (one gold, two bronze) and Olympic silver medallist.<\/p>\n<p>Algeria\u2019s Djamel Sedjati finished first in 1:41.91, while reigning world and Olympic champion Emmanuel Wanyonyi placed third in 1:42.28.<\/p>\n<p>In the men\u2019s 200 final, seven-time Olympic medallist Andre De Grasse finished fifth with a time of 19.92 seconds, while Toronto\u2019s Aaron Brown placed seventh at 20.23.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Emmanuel Wanyonyi crosses the finish line ahead of Algeria&#8217;s Djamel Sedjati and Canada&#8217;s Marco Arop, right, to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":894528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[49,48,44937,44],"class_list":["post-894527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-chilliwack-news-fraser-valley-abbotsford-weather-traffic-lower-mainland-fvt","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/894528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}