{"id":17463,"date":"2013-01-21T12:19:22","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/records-topple-at-drak-challenge\/"},"modified":"2013-01-21T12:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:19:22","slug":"records-topple-at-drak-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/records-topple-at-drak-challenge\/","title":{"rendered":"Records topple at Drak Challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/records-topple-at-drak-challenge\/grant-van-der-walt-3-lr\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1194\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1194\" alt=\"Grant van der Walt celebrates his first ever seniors singles river marathon title at the two-day N3TC Drak Challenge. Photo: Anthony Grote\/Gameplan Media\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/28136_Grant-van-der-Walt-3-LR.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"282\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Grant van der Walt celebrates his first ever seniors singles river marathon title at the two-day N3TC Drak Challenge. Photo: Anthony Grote\/Gameplan Media<\/p>\n<p>Underberg \u2013 The 20th edition of the N3TC Drak Challenge on the mighty Umzimkulu River was one to remember for under 23 world marathon champion Grant van der Walt as he earned his first senior singles river marathon title.<\/p>\n<p>He narrowly outsprinted Len Jenkins on Sunday\u2019s second and final stage and in so doing smashed the men\u2019s overall and second stage records by 11 and 20 minutes respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The win will be one the Team Best 4 Kayak Centre athlete will treasure for many years having worked his way through the ranks over the past few years under the guidance of Hank McGregor.<\/p>\n<p>The pace of the two-day contest is set to be a topic of conversation as no fewer than 26 K1s crossed the line quicker than the previous record.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m just super stoked!\u201d said an elated van der Walt. \u201cIt was an awesome couple of days of racing and to have won is amazing!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s also really special to have won my first here at the Drak. The Drak has been my favourite race since I raced it for the first time seven years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019s always nice when Hank and I race against each other and it was unfortunate he wasn\u2019t here but I\u2019m just chuffed with the win and am looking forward to the next K1 race that we can hopefully have a good race against each other.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The women\u2019s race was dominated by Team Best 4 Kayak Centre team-mates Abby Adie and Robyn Kime with Adie coming out trumps for the third time in four years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grant van der Walt celebrates his first ever seniors singles river marathon title at the two-day N3TC Drak Challenge. Photo: Anthony Grote\/Gameplan Media Underberg \u2013 The 20th edition of the N3TC Drak Challenge on the mighty Umzimkulu River was one to remember for under 23 world marathon champion Grant van der Walt as he earned [&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-17463","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\/17463","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=17463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}