{"id":62446,"date":"2014-06-23T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2014-06-23T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/62446\/callies-comrades-marathon-results\/"},"modified":"2014-06-23T12:03:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-23T10:03:04","slug":"callies-comrades-marathon-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2014\/06\/23\/callies-comrades-marathon-results\/","title":{"rendered":"Callies&#8217; comrades Marathon results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Callies&#8217; athletes took part in the Comrades Marathon, earlier this month.<\/p>\n<p>The Comrades is the world&#8217;s oldest and largest ultra-marathon, run over a distance of approximately 90km, between Pietermaritzburg and the coastal city of Durban.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Callies had 67 official starters and 54 of these managed to finish the race.<\/p>\n<p>Ten of the runners were women, which has been a constant record for Callies.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Zwelithini Vaphi, the club&#8217;s first finisher, was placed 46th overall and seventh in his age category.<\/p>\n<p>David Ntjepela got his green number and Fred Macdougal finished his 25th consecutive Comrades, which qualifies him for free entry into future Comrades races.<\/p>\n<p>Alan Rob completed his 41st consecutive Comrades Marathon, in under nine hours, to collect a Bill Rowan medal.<\/p>\n<p>The club is proud of all the athletes who took part in the marathon.<\/p>\n<p>Callies&#8217; top three male finishers: Zwelithini Vaphi (06:15:39 &#8211; silver), Thulane Magagula (06:44:02 &#8211; silver) and Headman Magadeni (07:08:07 &#8211; silver).<\/p>\n<p>Top three female finishers: Siziwe Ntshebe (10:04:13 &#8211; bronze), Kenosi Maruapula (10:42:14 &#8211; bronze) and Susan Basson (10:49:22 &#8211; bronze).<\/p>\n<p>Germiston Callies athletes did not represent only their club, but Germiston at large.<\/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='2fb939d34de99308d94304cb6360d8f1'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Callies&#8217; athletes performed well at the Comrades Marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":62504,"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":[2504,7919,1126,3275,3584,979,2655,3507,2749,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-62446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-athlete","tag-athletes","tag-athletics","tag-comrades-marathon","tag-comrades-marathon-2014","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-callies","tag-germiston-callies-harriers","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["athlete","athletes","athletics","Comrades Marathon","Comrades Marathon 2014","germiston","Germiston Callies","Germiston Callies Harriers","Puleng Sekabate","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62446","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=62446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62446\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}