{"id":128031,"date":"2016-07-16T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-07-16T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128031\/fourth-spot-for-local-paddler\/"},"modified":"2016-07-16T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2016-07-16T06:44:09","slug":"fourth-spot-for-local-paddler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/07\/16\/fourth-spot-for-local-paddler\/","title":{"rendered":"Fourth spot for local paddler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Despite it being winter and the cold water, Gauteng canoeists have kicked off their training in preparation for the major canoeing events which take place later in the year.<\/p>\n<p>Florida Lake Canoe Club hosted a 30km race from Daleside to Meyerton, on the Klip River, last Sunday, to provide paddlers with the opportunity to improve their fitness, as well as for newer paddlers to have the chance to obtain points and experience before taking on the longer, tougher, bigger races.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Anton Nel, a member of the Victoria Lake Canoe Club (VLC), based at Germiston Lake, where he also enjoys sailing, finished the river race in two hours 40 minutes, in fourth position in the sub-master age category, just missing a podium position.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/126895\/vlc-paddler-claims-third-spot-in-tricky-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">VLC paddler claims third spot in tricky race<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/120697\/novices-learn-the-ropes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Novices learn the ropes<\/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='11aad005bd9dadc19b825d7d11c3dedd'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gauteng paddlers have started training for major canoeing events.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":128032,"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":[1296,979,969,1143,2734,1297,1675,2822],"class_list":["post-128031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-canoeing","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-germiston-lake","tag-melissa-hart","tag-paddling","tag-victoria-lake-canoe-club","tag-vlc"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["canoeing","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston Lake","melissa hart","paddling","Victoria Lake Canoe Club","VLC"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128031","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=128031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}