{"id":58557,"date":"2014-04-23T11:12:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-23T09:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/?p=58557"},"modified":"2014-04-23T11:38:30","modified_gmt":"2014-04-23T09:38:30","slug":"local-sailor-heads-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/04\/23\/local-sailor-heads-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Local sailor heads for championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston&#8217;s Kanyisa \u00a0Mancoba has been selected to be part of the development \u00a0team that has been given a wild card entry into the J22 World Sailing Championships 2014, being held at the Vaal Dam from April 26 to May 2.<\/p>\n<p>The J22 is one design keelboat crewed by three members.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Mancoba is a member of the Victoria Lake Club Water Sport Institute where he has shown his skills in rowing and canoeing.<\/p>\n<p>Mancoba&#8217;s other team members are Jacob and Zac Bester, who are also members of the Victoria Lake Club.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The championships, which are are only hosted in South Africa every seven years, have attracted a 40 boat strong fleet with entries from as far afield as Germany and Cayman Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster finished fourth in his age group in the Gauteng Schools Sprint selection event that was held in Roodeplaat in March.<\/p>\n<p>He participated in his first National Sailing Championships and Youth National Sailing Championships in December 2013.<\/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='965c5623ce82e551fb991fe73859fadc'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mancoba sails to championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":552,"featured_media":58560,"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":[979,3333,3335,2749,3203,1119,1724,1675,3337,2822,3334,3336],"class_list":["post-58557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-germiston","tag-j22-world-sailing-championships","tag-national-sailing-championships","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sailing","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-victoria-lake-canoe-club","tag-victoria-lake-club-water-sport-institute","tag-vlc","tag-world-sailing-championships","tag-youth-national-sailing-championships"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["germiston","J22 World Sailing Championships","National Sailing Championships","Puleng Sekabate","sailing","sport","sports","Victoria Lake Canoe Club","Victoria Lake Club Water Sport Institute","VLC","World Sailing Championships","Youth National Sailing Championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58557","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\/552"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}