{"id":147144,"date":"2017-03-21T15:05:00","date_gmt":"2017-03-21T13:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147144\/athletes-make-coach-proud\/"},"modified":"2017-03-22T08:36:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-22T06:36:27","slug":"athletes-make-coach-proud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2017\/03\/21\/athletes-make-coach-proud\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes make coach proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Central Gauteng Athletics Track and Field Commission hosted the 2017 CGA Senior Championships at the University of Johannesburg Athletics Stadium on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Some of Germiston Callies Harriers athletes were also at the championships.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Their results were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pedro Aaron placed second in the senior men\u2019s long jump.<\/li>\n<li>Kayla Gilbert placed second in the senior women\u2019s long jump.<\/li>\n<li>Simon\u00e8 van der Nest won gold in the women\u2019s u-19 100m sprint.<\/li>\n<li>Tanya Ehrke attained a joint first place in the women\u2019s u-19 100m hurdles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cOnce again the athletes did very well,\u201d said their coach Stephan\u00e8 Kotz\u00e8.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>\u201cAaron, for example, was competing against some of the top senior athletes but he managed to come second with a distance of 7.96m.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the athletes gave it their all and I am proud of them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Kotz\u00e8 said Aaron will compete at the National Track and Field Senior Championships from April 20 to 22, in Potchefstroom.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Also read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147079\/local-athletes-conquer-championships\/\">Local athletes conquer championships<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/146675\/talent-takes-to-the-track-and-field\/\">Talent takes to the track and field<\/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='577b6465d4d94470333a6472d4278bd4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Local athletes competed at the 2017 CGA Senior Championships and produced four medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":147191,"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":[2504,7919,1106,969,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-147144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-gcn","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["athlete","athletes","GCN","germiston city news","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147144","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=147144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147144\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/147191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}