{"id":91760,"date":"2015-06-13T07:25:00","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T05:25:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/91760\/fifty-three-medals-for-germiston-callies\/"},"modified":"2015-06-12T13:52:44","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T11:52:44","slug":"fifty-three-medals-for-germiston-callies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/sports-news\/2015\/06\/13\/fifty-three-medals-for-germiston-callies\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifty-three medals for Germiston Callies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Callies Harriers were well represented in the recent Comrades Marathon.<\/p>\n<p>The club had a total of 74 entrants in the marathon\u2019s 90th year, with 53 finishing the race.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91762\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91762\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH3_19213.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91762\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH3_19213-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"Runners take on the gruelling challenge that is the Comrades Marathon. \" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH3_19213-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH3_19213-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH3_19213.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91762\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Runners take on the gruelling challenge that is the Comrades Marathon.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Thulane Magugula was the first of the Callies runners to finish, coming in 23rd overall, in a time of six hours and 10 minutes.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_91761\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-91761\" style=\"width: 520px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH2_34335.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-91761\" src=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH2_34335-520x390.jpg\" alt=\"Thulani Maqaqula was the first of the Germiston Callies Harriers runners to finish the Comrades Marathon. His time was six hours and 10 minutes.\" width=\"520\" height=\"390\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH2_34335-520x390.jpg 520w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH2_34335-270x203.jpg 270w, https:\/\/dwu32cgxelq1c.cloudfront.net\/local_newspapers\/sites\/31\/2015\/06\/24GCNSPORTCOMMLH2_34335.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 520px) 100vw, 520px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-91761\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Thulani Maqaqula was the first of the Germiston Callies Harriers runners to finish the Comrades Marathon. His time was six hours and 10 minutes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Magagula, Abram Hugo, Zwelithini Vaphi and Sipho Dlamini were the four members of the club who achieved silver medals, finishing the race in under seven and a half hours.<\/p><div class=\"stream-item stream-item-in-post stream-item-inline-post aligncenter\"><\/div>\n<p>Ten of the clubs runners received Bill Rowan medals (bronze centre circled by a silver ring), for finishing in between seven and a half hours and nine hours.<\/p>\n<p>Seventeen finished within nine to 11 hours and received bronze medals, including four times Comrades Marathon winner Alan Robb, who completed his 42nd race.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 22 runners finished the race within the 11 to 12 hours time frame and were awarded Vic Clapham medals (copper).<\/p>\n<p>The club is thrilled with the results and thanks everyone involved, including sponsors Bophelong Construction, Road Tech Engineering, Superway Construction, Martini Brothers, Qubekela Projects, Nyoni Nyoni Projects and Infraconsult (Monro Jansen).<\/p>\n<p>Other articles on the club:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/87809\/germiston-callies-athletes-conquer-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston Callies\u2019 athletes conquer championships<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/germistoncitynews.co.za\/80608\/germiston-callies-time-trials-2\/\" target=\"_blank\">Germiston Callies\u2019 time trials<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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='03173127ec596d8e7fc4d8d20ba44aff'><\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Germiston Callies Harriers runners conquer Comrades Marathon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":91763,"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":[8297,3275,1012,1003,1106,979,3507,969,2730,7594,1119,1724],"class_list":["post-91760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-sports","category-sports-news","tag-community-2","tag-comrades-marathon","tag-east-rand","tag-ekurhuleni","tag-gcn","tag-germiston","tag-germiston-callies-harriers","tag-germiston-city-news","tag-leigh-hodgson","tag-road-running","tag-sport-2","tag-sports"],"amp_enabled":true,"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"Local sport"},"tag_labels":["community","Comrades Marathon","East Rand","Ekurhuleni","GCN","germiston","Germiston Callies Harriers","germiston city news","Leigh Hodgson","road running","sport","sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91760","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=91760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/91760\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/91763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=91760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=91760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/germiston-city-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=91760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}