{"id":148715,"date":"2017-04-07T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-07T05:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/148715\/athletes-make-coach-proud-2\/"},"modified":"2017-04-07T15:09:04","modified_gmt":"2017-04-07T13:09:04","slug":"athletes-make-coach-proud-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2017\/04\/07\/athletes-make-coach-proud-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletes make coach proud"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Callies Harriers athletes showcased their talents at the SA Schools Athletics Championships held in Durban from March 29 to April 2.<\/p>\n<p>The local athletes Pedro Aaron, Simon\u00e8 van der Nest and Tanya Ehrke secured podium positions and proved that they are forces to be reckoned with.<\/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>Aaron won gold in the boy\u2019s u-19 long jump.<\/li>\n<li>Van der Nest won gold for the girl\u2019s u-19 100m and 200m sprint events.<\/li>\n<li>Ehrke came second in the girl\u2019s u-19 100m hurdles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cThese results are good &#8211; they really made themselves, their supporters and Germiston proud,\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>\u201cI am happy with the results they managed to produce at such a big event.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In other news, all three athletes, together with Kayla Gilbert, competed at Central Gauteng Athletics Track and Field Commission\u2019s 2017 CGA Senior Championships held at the University of Johannesburg Athletics Stadium, recently.<\/p>\n<p>Their results were:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Aaron placed second in the senior men\u2019s long jump.<\/li>\n<li>Gilbert placed second in the senior women\u2019s long jump.<\/li>\n<li>Van der Nest won gold in the women\u2019s u-19 100m sprint.<\/li>\n<li>Ehrke attained a joint first place in the women\u2019s u-19 100m hurdles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cIt is really humbling when athletes give the sport their all,\u201d said Kotz\u00e8.<\/p>\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.\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\/148343\/great-masters-athletics-this-saturday\/\">Great masters athletics this Saturday<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/147897\/get-ready-for-the-alan-robb-race\/\">Get ready for the Alan Robb race<\/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='aa0c2afd845f0a4b3a503730193a5eec'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Callies Harriers received great representation from local athletes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":148716,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Puleng Sekabate","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[14193,2504,7919,1126,1794,14194,2464,1106,979,3507,969,1295,5507,2749,14192,1119,1724,8669],"class_list":["post-148715","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-2017-cga-senior-championships","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-athletics","tag-central-gauteng-athletics","tag-central-gauteng-athletics-track-and-field-commission","tag-cga","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-callies-harriers","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-local-sport-2","tag-local-sports-2","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sa-schools-athletics-championships","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-stephane-kotze"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["2017 CGA Senior Championships","athlete","athletes","athletics","central gauteng athletics","Central Gauteng Athletics Track and Field Commission","cga","GCN","germiston","Germiston Callies Harriers","germiston city news","local sport","Local Sports","Puleng Sekabate","SA Schools Athletics Championships","sport","sports","Stephan\u00e9 Kotz\u00e9"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148715","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=148715"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/148715\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/148716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=148715"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=148715"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=148715"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}