{"id":118400,"date":"2016-04-17T07:10:00","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T05:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/118400\/teen-shows-his-power\/"},"modified":"2016-04-18T09:05:47","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T07:05:47","slug":"teen-shows-his-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/04\/17\/teen-shows-his-power\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen shows his power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Michael Snook (18) is one of Unique Physique\u2019s rising young stars.<\/p>\n<p>He recently competed in the Rhino Powerlifting qualifier in the bench press, squat and deadlift categories.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>But he truly shone in the deadlift category, breaking a South African as well as a world record in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Currently Snook is waiting for the official recognition of his world record from the GPC (Global Powerlifting Committee).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He should have confirmation by May 1 and everyone at the gym is very excited.<\/p>\n<p>In the event Snook, weighing in at 164.4kg, lifted a weight of 253.5kg, shattering both the South African and world records.<\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, Snook was due to compete in a competition entitled Empowered in the Teen Three Super Heavyweight division.<\/p>\n<p>The competition was held in Silverton in Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>All at Unique Physique are proud of this gentle giant and wish him well for all his future events.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/117843\/building-up-for-the-new-season\/\" target=\"_blank\">Building up for the new season<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"stream-item stream-item-below-post-content\">\n<div class='tenancy_slot tenancy_slot_1 jannah_ad' style='display: none;' data-query-id='acdbe0d6948d7b98db008abbb459ea30'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Unique Physique is proud of teenager Michael Snook\u2019s achievements.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":118401,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[3726,979,969,2734,10656,1000,1119,10553],"class_list":["post-118400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-bodybuilding","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-melissa-hart","tag-powerlifting","tag-primrose","tag-sport-2","tag-unique-physique"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["bodybuilding","germiston","germiston city news","melissa hart","powerlifting","primrose","sport","unique physique"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}