{"id":44305,"date":"2013-09-17T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/44305\/tough-interprovincial-sa-sprint-competition-orcanoe-sprint-raceorafrican-championships-coming-up\/"},"modified":"2013-09-17T14:52:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-17T12:52:53","slug":"tough-interprovincial-sa-sprint-competition-orcanoe-sprint-raceorafrican-championships-coming-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2013\/09\/17\/tough-interprovincial-sa-sprint-competition-orcanoe-sprint-raceorafrican-championships-coming-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Tough Interprovincial SA Sprint competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Interprovincial SA Sprint competition took place at Roodeplaat Dam during the first weekend of September in warm summer conditions.<\/p>\n<p>The young paddlers participated in a variety of canoe sprint races in the various Olympic-recognised distances of 200m, 500m and 1 000m, as well as the K4, K2 and K1 disciplines.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The spotlight will be on these young paddlers as they progress towards the international arena.<\/p>\n<p>Among others, Spoon Mkhuzangwe and Colin Ledwaba both u-18 and pupils at Germiston High School, and Katiso Hlahatsi (u-23) were under pressure with selections for the African Canoe Championships taking place.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Mkhuzangwe, Ledwaba and Hlahatsi are all from the Victoria Lake Canoe Club.<\/p>\n<p>The African Canoe Championships will be held in Tunisia in November.<\/p>\n<p>Announcements for the final African Championships team will be made by the end of September.<\/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='24cba2f89b2dd225b801cb2944093093'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>African Championships coming up<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":44306,"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":[1740,1738,979,1458,1739,1741,1724,1142,1675],"class_list":["post-44305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-african-canoe-championships","tag-canoe","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-high-school","tag-interprovincial-sa-sprint-competition","tag-olympic","tag-sports","tag-victoria-lake","tag-victoria-lake-canoe-club"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["African Canoe Championships","canoe","germiston","germiston high school","Interprovincial SA Sprint competition","olympic","sports","Victoria Lake","Victoria Lake Canoe Club"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44305","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=44305"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44305\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}