{"id":17316,"date":"2013-01-12T23:56:58","date_gmt":"2013-01-12T21:56:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mcgregor-on-a-winning-wave\/"},"modified":"2013-01-12T23:56:58","modified_gmt":"2013-01-12T21:56:58","slug":"mcgregor-on-a-winning-wave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mcgregor-on-a-winning-wave\/","title":{"rendered":"McGregor on a winning wave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/903\/hank-mcgregor-2-lr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-904\" alt=\"Hank McGregor. Photo: Anthony Grote\/Gameplan Media\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/47e2f_Hank-McGregor-2-LR.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hank McGregor. Photo: Anthony Grote\/Gameplan Media<\/p>\n<p>Durban \u2013 Renowned world class paddler Hank McGregor got his title defence off to the perfect start when he narrowly edged out fellow pre-series title favourites to claim Friday evening\u2019s Borland Surfski Challenge, the first leg of the Marine Surfski Series.<\/p>\n<p>Fresh off successfully defending his SA S1 Surfski Championships title in Cape Town, the Team Best 4 Kayak Centre star powered his way to the front with 200m to go to edge out team-mate Grant van der Walt, Umhlanga powerhouse Matt Bouman and Team Jeep\u2019s Brandon van der Walt in the 8km shootout.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith the sea being quite flat we always knew it was going to be a strategic race from the beginning. There wasn\u2019t too much assistance on the downwind leg so it was always going to come down to bunch racing and a sprint,\u201d explained McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we came around the final buoy I had Grant (van der Walt) on my inside, Brandon (van der Walt) on my outside and Matt (Bouman) sitting on the diamond. I just pushed hard and fortunately I managed to get ahead a little and it was great to take the win first up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLast year\u2019s final race finished in a sprint in very similar conditions, which fortunately I managed to win and it also gave me the title, so it was nice to be able to start this year\u2019s series on a similarly positive note.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hank McGregor. Photo: Anthony Grote\/Gameplan Media Durban \u2013 Renowned world class paddler Hank McGregor got his title defence off to the perfect start when he narrowly edged out fellow pre-series title favourites to claim Friday evening\u2019s Borland Surfski Challenge, the first leg of the Marine Surfski Series. Fresh off successfully defending his SA S1 Surfski [&hellip;]<\/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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[3258,830,885],"class_list":{"0":"post-17316","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-mysport","8":"tag-news","9":"tag-sport","10":"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\/17316","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=17316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}