{"id":23807,"date":"2015-01-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-19T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/echonews.sites.caxton.co.za\/23807\/swimmers-make-a-big-splash\/"},"modified":"2015-05-17T13:53:35","modified_gmt":"2015-05-17T11:53:35","slug":"swimmers-make-a-big-splash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/sports-news\/local-sports\/2015\/01\/20\/swimmers-make-a-big-splash\/","title":{"rendered":"Swimmers make a big splash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More than 300 top swimmers from all over Mpumalanga, Mozambique, Limpopo and even Tuks swimming club, competed against each other for top positions in the province.<\/p>\n<p>This annual event also serves as a stepping stone for young talent seeking future national level opportunities.<\/p>\n<p>Uniswim Middelburg\/Witbank had a total of 13 swimmers who competed and brought home a total of 36 medals &#8211; a haul that included 11 gold, 15 silver and 10 bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>Swimmers train very hard for a premier event like this and everyone was rewarded with swimming their own personal best times for the season.<\/p>\n<p>Stephani Viljoen, competing in the 12 year old girls category, took part in 12 events ending the competition with 11 gold and a silver medal. She was also the junior Victrix Ludorum.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 For the first time in decades Nkangala swimming is hosting two official galas in Middelburg. The gala dates are 7 February and 20-21 Feb 2015. All swimmers are welcome. Entries can be sent to uniswim.midwit@gmail.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2014 Mpumalanga Swimming Championship took place in Nelspruit. This is the season&#8217;s premier gala for the province and is held over the course of three days.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1848,"featured_media":23808,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2887,11,2886],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-sport","category-local-sports","category-sports-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"Sport","SubCategory":"General"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1848"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}