{"id":52037,"date":"2014-01-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/52037\/cgas-second-league-meetingorathletics-meeting-at-germiston-stadiumor\/"},"modified":"2014-01-22T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T10:12:12","slug":"cgas-second-league-meetingorathletics-meeting-at-germiston-stadiumor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/01\/22\/cgas-second-league-meetingorathletics-meeting-at-germiston-stadiumor\/","title":{"rendered":"Athletics meeting at Germiston Stadium"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Germiston Stadium hosted Central Gauteng Athletics&#8217; (CGA) second meeting, on January 18.<\/p>\n<p>This was a track and field sub-youth league meeting, with athletes from clubs across the country participating and showing off their various athletics talents.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>At these meetings, athletes compete in order to accumulate points, to qualify for the Central Gauteng Youth and Senior Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The day started with a 3 000m walk at the stadium, getting the athletes warmed up and ready to compete.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Germiston Callies athlete Jade Thiele won the 100m women&#8217;s sprint.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am very proud of her, she did really well and we are hoping for a good season this year,&#8221; said Germiston Callies&#8217; coach Stephan\u00e9 Kotze.<\/p>\n<p>The Scaw Harriers&#8217; athletes also made an appearance and one of their members, Thabo Motaung, came out first in the 3 000m steeplechase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The race was okay; I trained well for it, so it wasn&#8217;t difficult for me and mostly I enjoyed it,&#8221; said Motaung.<\/p>\n<p>Athletes were accompanied by their friends and families, who showed immense support for all the participants who took part on the day.<\/p>\n<p>The CGA has another meeting scheduled at the Germiston Stadium, on Saturday.<\/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='386f9e3e0d4dd5bfc0df1a5edf12eae2'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CGA&#8217;s second league meeting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":52038,"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":[7919,1126,2654,2464,1003,979,2655,1793,2653,1119,1724,2656],"class_list":["post-52037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-athletes","tag-athletics","tag-central-gauteng-athletics-meeting","tag-cga","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-callies","tag-germiston-stadium","tag-long-jump","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-steeplechase"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["athletes","athletics","Central Gauteng Athletics Meeting","cga","Ekurhuleni","germiston","Germiston Callies","Germiston Stadium","long jump","sport","sports","steeplechase"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52037","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=52037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}