{"id":203842,"date":"2019-05-07T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T08:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/203842\/young-wrestlers-shine-at-championships\/"},"modified":"2019-05-07T14:56:10","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T12:56:10","slug":"young-wrestlers-shine-at-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2019\/05\/07\/young-wrestlers-shine-at-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Young wrestlers shine at championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several young wrestlers from the Elsburg Wrestling Club travelled to Middelburg, recently, for the Mpumalanga Open Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The championships saw wrestlers from Gauteng (eastern, northern and central) and Mpumalanga competing for top honours.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h4>ALSO READ:\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/178942\/wrestlers-shine-at-annual-brakpan-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wrestlers shine at annual Brakpan Challenge<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The club walked away from the championship with several medals.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur wrestlers earned three long term participant development (LTPD) medals, two gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal,\u201d said Joep Joubert, media representative for Elsburg Wrestling Club.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<h4>ALSO READ:\u00a0<a class=\"anchor_post\" href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/177738\/wrestlers-travel-to-morocco-for-prestigious-games\/\" target=\"_blank\">Wrestlers travel to Morocco for prestigious games<\/a><\/h4>\n<p>\u201cThis is a great achievement as our wrestlers are still young and not as well-known as some of the wrestlers of bigger clubs in Eastern Gauteng.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Have a 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