{"id":58697,"date":"2014-04-29T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-29T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/58697\/gauteng-canoe-unions-practice-sprint-races-2\/"},"modified":"2014-04-29T10:44:16","modified_gmt":"2014-04-29T08:44:16","slug":"gauteng-canoe-unions-practice-sprint-races-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/04\/29\/gauteng-canoe-unions-practice-sprint-races-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Gauteng Canoe Union&#8217;s practice sprint races"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While many Gauteng juniors are planning to enjoy a couple of weeks of holiday, the junior paddlers will be doing some serious training as they approach the South African Inter-School Sprint Competition.<\/p>\n<p>The competition takes place in De Rust, on the Stompdrift dam, Eastern Cape, on the first weekend of May.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Among the junior paddlers in the training programme in Gauteng, who will be participating at the inter-provincial event, will be a number of young active canoeists from Germiston&#8217;s local schools who are also members of the Victoria Lake Canoe Club.<\/p>\n<p>The Gauteng school league has arranged a number of practice sprint races, including 200m, 500m, 1000m and the long distance of 2000m and 5000m (age appropriate).<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>These practice races ran during the past months into April as preparation for the inter-provincial events where Gauteng canoe achievers can gain points towards receiving their Junior Gauteng colours.<\/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='5d8176326ac0334b1beae1310f62f0c4'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tough training for SA Inter-School Sprint Competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":58698,"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":[1738,1296,2120,979,2749,3339,1119,1724,1675,2822],"class_list":["post-58697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-canoe","tag-canoeing","tag-canoeists","tag-germiston","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-south-african-inter-school-sprint-competition","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-victoria-lake-canoe-club","tag-vlc"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["canoe","canoeing","canoeists","germiston","Puleng Sekabate","South African Inter-School Sprint Competition","sport","sports","Victoria Lake Canoe Club","VLC"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58697","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=58697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}