{"id":84142,"date":"2015-03-22T09:05:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-22T07:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/84142\/pedalling-his-way-to-glory\/"},"modified":"2015-03-20T15:15:40","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T13:15:40","slug":"pedalling-his-way-to-glory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/03\/22\/pedalling-his-way-to-glory\/","title":{"rendered":"Pedalling his way to glory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>He has the Tour de France and the Kieran in Japan in his sights and, for young cycling sensation Callum McGillivray (16), this dream is sure to become a reality.<\/p>\n<p>Lambton resident McGillivray is a pupil at Afrikaanse Ho\u00ebrskool Germiston and has been cycling for two-and-a-half years.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>His latest races at the Gauteng Track Provincial Championships, at Hector Norris Park, in Turffontein, over the weekend of March 14 and 15, saw him winning a string of medals in the u-16 category.<\/p>\n<p>He won gold in the 1 000m Match Sprint, 2km Individual Pursuit, 500m Time Trial, 1 500m Scratch Race and in the 3km Team Pursuit.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>He picked up silver in the 8km Scratch Race and in the 10km Points Race.<\/p>\n<p>McGillivray trains for about 15 hours a week and rides in the Gauteng League on Saturday afternoons.<\/p>\n<p>For road cycling he trains at Suikerbos Rand (which is, unfortunately, closed at the moment), on the Lido Loop and in and around Lambton.<\/p>\n<p>For track racing he trains at Hector Norris Park, which is the closest velodrome to him.<\/p>\n<p>McGillivray is set to take part in the South African Track Championships, from April 7 to 11, at Hector Norris Park.<\/p>\n<p>He will be competing in the same events he tackled at the Gauteng Track Provincial Championships and is training hard to cycle away with medals again.<\/p>\n<p>When McGillivray isn\u2019t cycling he loves to relax by gaming (World of Warcraft and Eve Online) and also makes chainmail.<\/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='98180f2c2934cab169b73cb01b6d7587'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pedal-power puts McGillivray on top.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":84143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Melissa Hart","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,3],"tags":[3072,2576,6947,979,969,1059,2734,6948,1119],"class_list":["post-84142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-afrikaans-high-school-germiston","tag-cycling","tag-gauteng-track-provincial-championships","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-lambton","tag-melissa-hart","tag-south-african-track-championships","tag-sport-2"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["afrikaans high school germiston","cycling","Gauteng Track Provincial Championships","germiston","germiston city news","lambton","melissa hart","South African Track Championships","sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84142","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=84142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}