{"id":132313,"date":"2016-09-03T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2016-09-03T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/132313\/local-paddlers-are-training-hard-for-upcoming-canoe-marathon\/"},"modified":"2016-09-02T15:10:55","modified_gmt":"2016-09-02T13:10:55","slug":"local-paddlers-are-training-hard-for-upcoming-canoe-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2016\/09\/03\/local-paddlers-are-training-hard-for-upcoming-canoe-marathon\/","title":{"rendered":"Local paddlers are training hard for upcoming canoe marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As the weather warms up, and the Hansa Fish River A Grade Canoe Marathon draws closer, Gauteng paddlers are out in full force preparing for the big water event in Cradock.<\/p>\n<p>The race is 80kms of sheer adrenaline and fun.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Florida Lake Canoe Club (FLCC) hosted the 22km Tops Spar Klip River Race, from Daleside to Meyerton, recently, to provide an opportunity for newly registered paddlers to gain points for A Grade status.<\/p>\n<p>They need points in order to participate in the Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon in October.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The transformation programmes in Gauteng have proved immensely successful and the winners were Siseko Ntondini (u-23, from Soweto), followed by Alex Masina (u-18, from Johannesburg South).<\/p>\n<p>Members of the Victoria Lake Canoe Club, based at Germiston Lake, have organised a very successful novice programme and many paddlers are busy qualifying and training new paddlers towards participation in the Fish River Canoe Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Waide and Brook Stevens, from VLC, enjoyed their race, finishing in a time of one hour and 38 minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Other articles you may be interested in:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/128616\/local-paddlers-take-on-the-mighty-berg-river-canoe-marathon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Local paddlers take on the mighty Berg River Canoe Marathon<\/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='b68a1403c1d257717daf521cfef378a9'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Paddlers in the province are putting in lots of training for the upcoming Hansa Fish River Canoe Marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":132314,"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":[1296,979,969,1143,2734,1766,1297,1119,1675,12173],"class_list":["post-132313","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-paddlers","tag-paddling","tag-sport-2","tag-victoria-lake-canoe-club","tag-vls"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["canoeing","germiston","germiston city news","Germiston Lake","melissa hart","paddlers","paddling","sport","Victoria Lake Canoe Club","vls"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132313","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=132313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}