{"id":142018,"date":"2019-07-25T06:34:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-25T04:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-womens-team-take-bronze-at-world-student-games\/"},"modified":"2019-07-25T06:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-25T04:34:51","slug":"sa-womens-team-take-bronze-at-world-student-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-womens-team-take-bronze-at-world-student-games\/","title":{"rendered":"SA women\u2019s team take bronze at World Student Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

SA women\u2019s team take bronze at World Student Games<\/a>: <\/p>\n

MyPR: SA women\u2019s team take bronze at World Student Games<\/strong>: <\/p>\n

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University of Johannesburg athlete Rachel Leistra (in dark green) competes in the team half-marathon race at the World Student Games in Naples, Italy, earlier this month. Photo: Supplied<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The South Africa women’s team captured the bronze medal in the half-marathon race at the World Student Games in Naples, Italy, this month.<\/p>\n

University of Johannesburg’s Rachel Leistra joined Lesego Mpshe (Arizona) and Tyler Beling (Free State) in the team, with the three times being added together to decide the final placings.<\/p>\n

Leistra was thrilled to come back with a medal as she had struggled with injury in the build-up to the event.<\/p>\n

“I felt I was not where I could have been in terms of fitness and preparation due to these injuries occurring,” she said.<\/p>\n

“Unfortunately I felt the pain in my hip with hip flexion and on impact after 3km into the race, but I just decided run as best as I could.”<\/p>\n

Running in hot and humid conditions at 7am, the runners did three loops of a 6.9km course, ending on an uphill.<\/p>\n

“It was a flat and fast course and we all just ran our own races, doing the best we could for the team,” she added.<\/p>\n

“In the end, winning a team bronze medal was awesome and I was extremely happy.<\/p>\n

“To win against the best of the best from around the world was a special feeling and I received great support from my teammates.”<\/p>\n

The UJ fourth-year student, who was attending her first World Student Games, said she had learnt a lot from the experience.<\/p>\n

“I was able to push through one of the toughest races I have run, which means I can only get better from here,” said Leistra.<\/p>\n

She paid tribute to the UJ medical team, who dedicated two days a week to assisting her.<\/p>\n

“That helped me to be pain-free two weeks before the games and I was extremely happy.”<\/p>\n

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SA women\u2019s team take bronze at World Student Games: MyPR: SA women\u2019s team take bronze at World Student Games: University of Johannesburg athlete Rachel Leistra (in dark green) competes in the team half-marathon race at the World Student Games in Naples, Italy, earlier this month. Photo: Supplied The South Africa women’s team captured the bronze […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3332],"tags":[10888,8108,7891,3801,3988,5250,2213],"class_list":{"0":"post-142018","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-bronze","8":"tag-games","9":"tag-student","10":"tag-take","11":"tag-team","12":"tag-womens","13":"tag-world","14":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142018\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}