{"id":144391,"date":"2017-02-14T14:50:00","date_gmt":"2017-02-14T12:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/144391\/podium-positions-for-athletes\/"},"modified":"2017-02-14T15:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-02-14T13:15:24","slug":"podium-positions-for-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2017\/02\/14\/podium-positions-for-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Podium positions for athletes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Callies Harriers athletes attended Central Gauteng Athletics (CGA)\u2019s third league meeting held at the University of Johannesburg Athletics Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The athletes who represented their club and Germiston were Pedro Aaron, Kayla Gilbert, Verusca Woest, Simon\u00e8 van der Nest and Tanya Ekhardt.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The local youngsters and other athletes at the meeting are building up to provincial and national championships and this was evident in the exceptional performance witnessed at the stadium.<\/p>\n<p>The local athletes clinched six first places in their respective age groups<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Their results are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aaron &#8211; first place in the junior boys\u2019 long jump.<\/li>\n<li>Gilbert &#8211; first place in the senior women\u2019s long jump.<\/li>\n<li>Woest &#8211; first place in the youth girls\u2019 100m and 200m sprint heat.<\/li>\n<li>Van der Nest &#8211; first place in the junior girls\u2019 100m sprint heat.<\/li>\n<li>Ekhardt &#8211; first place in the mixed junior and senior women\u2019s 100m hurdles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThese are impressive results, the hard work and determination that these athletes put in during training is paying off,\u201d said the local athletes\u2019 coach, Stephan\u00e8 Kotz\u00e8.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am proud of them and hope for more great results going forward.\u201d<\/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='14048e314e7b832d29478f3d62b7db60'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Athletes secure six first places at athletics meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":144551,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[509,11,3],"tags":[8297,1012,1003,1106,979,969,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-144391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-editors-note","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-community-2","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["community","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","germiston city news","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144391","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=144391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/144551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}