{"id":59313,"date":"2014-05-05T12:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-05-05T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/59313\/rowing-club-excels-in-sa-championships\/"},"modified":"2014-05-05T13:05:04","modified_gmt":"2014-05-05T11:05:04","slug":"rowing-club-excels-in-sa-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/05\/05\/rowing-club-excels-in-sa-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Rowing club excels in SA Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A successful end to the summer rowing season rewarded Wemmer Pan Rowing Club&#8217;s efforts at the 59th South African Rowing Championships held on April 12 and 13 at the Roodeplaat Dam, north of Pretoria.<\/p>\n<p>Local rowers produced great results despite creative last-minute crew changes and scratchings occasioned by the sudden illness of five stalwart club members.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Although the club&#8217;s home dam is Wemmer Pan, some of the members are Germiston residents.<\/p>\n<p>Even after having to scratch four races, the club netted eight gold medals in addition to a number of second and third places.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>The medals were awarded for their respective performances in:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The first division masters doubles.<\/li>\n<li>The women&#8217;s masters&#8217; doubles.<\/li>\n<li>The first division masters quadruples.<\/li>\n<li>The second division masters coxed eight.<\/li>\n<li>The second division masters coxed octuples.<\/li>\n<li>The second division masters coxless fours.<\/li>\n<li>The women&#8217;s master&#8217;s quadruples.<\/li>\n<li>The men&#8217;s C doubles.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The club&#8217;s juniors also managed to go through to the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Impressively, the Madeley brothers (Mark and William) set a new record time with their win in the first division masters doubles.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There was a great buzz among club members and fantastic teamwork all round, well done to all,&#8221; said the club captain Elra de Jager.<\/p>\n<p>Wemmer Pan Junior Winter clinic will start on May 11 and run every Sunday for five weeks.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, Wemmer also offers individual scull coaching and a Learn to Row clinic for everyone and anyone.<\/p>\n<p>For more information contact de Jager on 082 783 5806 or email at elra.dejager@wfp.org.<\/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='711e20fdbb779edbe70ed19037df1f81'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold medals for rowers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":59314,"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":[3406,979,2749,3405,2803,3407,1119,1724,2858],"class_list":["post-59313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-59th-south-african-rowing-championships","tag-germiston","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-rowers","tag-rowing","tag-south-african-rowing-championships","tag-sport-2","tag-sports","tag-wemmer-pan-rowing-club"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["59th South African Rowing Championships","germiston","Puleng Sekabate","Rowers","rowing","South African Rowing Championships","sport","sports","Wemmer Pan Rowing club."],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59313","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=59313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}