{"id":84125,"date":"2015-03-20T08:20:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/84125\/running-towards-success\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T08:45:06","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T06:45:06","slug":"running-towards-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/03\/20\/running-towards-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Running towards success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Amoure le Roux is a 17-year-old Germiston athlete who is in good shape and ready for upcoming competitions.<\/p>\n<p>Among other things, the Diamond Athletics Academy athlete has her eye set on the Youth Olympic Championships that are scheduled to take place on July 15, in Columbia.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Before Columbia, le Roux must compete in the Gauteng and National Championships that will take place towards the end of this month.<\/p>\n<p>She takes part in 200m and 400m sprint races, 400m hurdles and is a netball player.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>With her current top form, the youngster already qualifies for an A standard at Athletics South Africa (ASA).<\/p>\n<p>Her coach, Maria Diamond, is very pleased with her current form and confident that she will excel at upcoming tournaments and competitions with flying colours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She really worked hard during the December holidays, preparing for this year&#8217;s season, even on vacation in Durban,&#8221; said Diamond.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like to thank her parents for their support.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Although le Roux has already qualified for the Youth Olympics Championships, she first has to compete in the Schools National Championships, from March 26 to 28, in Rustenburg.<\/p>\n<p>She will also take part in the Clubs National Championships, from April 9 to 11, in Bloemfontein.<\/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='525c081b6d6b52e7062a4d0ad1341dce'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Young athlete on top form.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":84126,"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":[1126,979,969,2749,2345,1119],"class_list":["post-84125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-athletics","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-puleng-sekabate","tag-running","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["athletics","germiston","germiston city news","Puleng Sekabate","running","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84125","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=84125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84125\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}