{"id":2458,"date":"2025-04-22T14:48:22","date_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/gladiators-star-jodie-ounsley-finishes-second-in-world-coal-carrying-championships\/"},"modified":"2025-04-22T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T14:48:22","slug":"gladiators-star-jodie-ounsley-finishes-second-in-world-coal-carrying-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/22\/gladiators-star-jodie-ounsley-finishes-second-in-world-coal-carrying-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Gladiators star Jodie Ounsley finishes second in World Coal Carrying Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-04-22 14:48:22<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>&#8216;Gladiators&#8217; star Jodie Ounsley finished second in the World Coal Carrying Championships.<BR><br \/>\nThe ex-England rugby sevens player &#8211; who is better known as Fury on the hit BBC One Saturday night game show &#8216;Gladiators&#8217; &#8211; took part in the 1,012-metre women&#8217;s race on Monday (21.04.25) after winning the Wakefield, West Yorkshire-based event five times as a child.<BR><br \/>\nShe smashed a world record a fortnight ago for running 50 metres in 8.06 seconds &#8211; of which a &#8220;flat-out dash&#8221; is what she is &#8220;most suited to&#8221; &#8211; while carrying a heavy bag of coal around the Thornes Park Athletic Stadium.<BR><br \/>\nThe 24-year-old superstar &#8211; who is severely deaf &#8211; took part to raise money for the Elizabeth Foundation, which provides education for babies and preschool children who have different forms of deafness.<BR><br \/>\nJodie &#8211; who &#8220;absolutely loved&#8221; the training because it challenged her &#8211; told the BBC: &#8220;It&#8217;s such a unique event, but the feeling you get from it, I&#8217;d love for anyone to experience that.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-04-22 14:48:22 &#8216;Gladiators&#8217; star Jodie Ounsley finished second in the World Coal Carrying Championships. The ex-England rugby sevens player &#8211; who is better known as Fury on the hit BBC&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2459,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2458\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}