{"id":55924,"date":"2014-03-25T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-25T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/55924\/great-results-for-callies-2\/"},"modified":"2014-03-25T09:59:46","modified_gmt":"2014-03-25T07:59:46","slug":"great-results-for-callies-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/03\/25\/great-results-for-callies-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Great results for Callies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rudi Jordaan and George Hunter, from Germiston Callies, competed in the North West North Athletic Championships that were held on March 22, at the Royal Bafokeng Stadium, in Rustenburg.<\/p>\n<p>Jordaan, in the men&#8217;s 30-34 years category, took second place in the 200m sprint in a time of 23.28 seconds; first place in the 100m sprint in a time of 11.04 seconds, and first place in the long jump, at 5.70m.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Hunter, in the men&#8217;s 40-44 years category, took second place in the 200m sprint in a time of 23.71 seconds and first place in the 100m sprint race, in a time of 11.13 seconds, which were both personal bests.<\/p>\n<p>Both athletes also competed in the Gauteng North Masters Championships, in Pretoria, on March 8.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>They put on their best performances and produced impressive results.<\/p>\n<p>Jordaan had the following results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First place in the 200m sprint in an electronic time of 23.92 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>First place in the 100m sprint in an electronic time of 11.80 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>First place in the long jump, 5.96m.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Hunter had the following results:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First place in the 100m sprint in an electronic time of 11.91 seconds.<\/li>\n<li>Second place in the 200m sprint in an electronic time of 24.38 seconds.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Jordaan took a break from athletics in 2001, for personal reasons, and returned in the 2012\/2013 season.<\/p>\n<p>One of his goals for the year is to compete at the South African Athletics Championships at the end of April.<\/p>\n<p>Jordaan encourages young athletes to work hard.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Do the best of your ability and follow your dreams, no matter what, and always remember the Japanese saying: &#8216;WA-GO-KEN-SAN&#8217;, which means &#8216;never give up&#8217;,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Jordaan and Hunter are training hard for the next next masters&#8217; championships, that will take place on April 12, at the Germiston Stadium.<\/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='b1eb67b672fbcfbefd2c809a81d68228'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Callies made proud.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":55925,"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":[2504,7919,1126,3159,979,3158,2749,3111,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-55924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-athletics","tag-gauteng-north-masters-championships","tag-germiston","tag-north-west-north-athletic-championships","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-south-african-athletics-championships","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["athlete","athletes","athletics","Gauteng North Masters Championships","germiston","North West North Athletic Championships","Puleng Sekabate","South African Athletics Championships","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55924","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=55924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}