{"id":69708,"date":"2026-03-22T15:57:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:57:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/us-high-school-student-cooper-lutkenhaus-wins-800m-to-become-youngest-ever-indoor-world-champion\/"},"modified":"2026-03-22T15:57:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-22T20:57:24","slug":"us-high-school-student-cooper-lutkenhaus-wins-800m-to-become-youngest-ever-indoor-world-champion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/us-high-school-student-cooper-lutkenhaus-wins-800m-to-become-youngest-ever-indoor-world-champion\/","title":{"rendered":"US high school student Cooper Lutkenhaus wins 800m to become youngest ever indoor world champion"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>17-year-old took time off high school to win gold<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Beats Belgium\u2019s Eliott Crestan by 0.14 seconds<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US teenager Cooper Lutkenhaus made history on Sunday when he won gold in the 800m to becomes the youngest ever champion at the world indoor athletics championship.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year-old, who took time off from his classes at Northwest High School in Texas to compete at the championships, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/chrischavez\/status\/2035791879757778963?s=46&amp;t=Dk7Xwa56kvrRKm1P36ZnWw\">won gold<\/a> with a time of 1min, 44.24sec, 0.14 seconds ahead of Belgium\u2019s Eliott Crestan. Mohamed Attaoui of Spain won bronze.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/mar\/22\/cooper-lutkenhaus-800m-world-indoor-championship-teenager\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>17-year-old took time off high school to win gold Beats Belgium\u2019s Eliott Crestan by 0.14 seconds US teenager Cooper Lutkenhaus made history on Sunday when he won gold in the 800m to becomes the youngest ever champion at the world indoor athletics championship. The 17-year-old, who took time off from his classes at Northwest High &#8230; <a title=\"US high school student Cooper Lutkenhaus wins 800m to become youngest ever indoor world champion\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/22\/us-high-school-student-cooper-lutkenhaus-wins-800m-to-become-youngest-ever-indoor-world-champion\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about US high school student Cooper Lutkenhaus wins 800m to become youngest ever indoor world champion\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}