{"id":20356,"date":"2013-06-11T22:00:19","date_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/victory-for-south-africas-murray-at-grand-prix\/"},"modified":"2013-06-11T22:00:19","modified_gmt":"2013-06-11T20:00:19","slug":"victory-for-south-africas-murray-at-grand-prix","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/victory-for-south-africas-murray-at-grand-prix\/","title":{"rendered":"Victory for South Africa\u2019s Murray at Grand Prix"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=4783\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4783\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright  wp-image-4783\" alt=\"richardmurray\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/68669_richardmurray.jpg\" width=\"278\" height=\"419\" \/><\/a>It was Richard Murray\u2019s first French Grand Prix win at the sprint triathlon in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Les Sables-d'Olonne\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Les_Sables-d%27Olonne\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Les Sables d\u2019Olonne<\/a>, France, this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Spain\u2019s Javier Gomez finished second followed by Aur\u00e9lien Lebrun.<\/p>\n<p>The conditions were a bit challenging due to the rain and newly painted lines.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m really glad I didn\u2019t crash. I did feel my rear tire slip out on more than one occasion,\u201d said Murray. \u201cThe swim was very cold and the bike leg very slippery. It was a contest of the skilled and those who survived.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Coming out of the swim leg Murray dropped his swimming cap and goggles on entry to transition and he had to turn around to avoid a time penalty.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was just 28 seconds behind Javier out the water but with the wet conditions we only caught the lead group in the second transition heading out for the run. The run suited me perfectly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHalf of it was off-road which I loved. The race reminded me a bit of Hamburg last year \u2013 Javi and me running 5km at our max speeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe maxed out, but the pain was worth it. I pushed really hard to get away from Javi.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Murray is heading to Barcelona where he will be based for the upcoming few weeks. His next race is an ITU World Triathlon Series event on July 6 in Kitzbuhl.<\/p>\n<h6 class=\"zemanta-related-title\">Related articles<\/h6>\n<ul class=\"zemanta-article-ul zemanta-article-ul-image\">\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/murray-in-the-running-in-japan-triathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/68669_168382816_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/murray-in-the-running-in-japan-triathlon\/\" target=\"_blank\">Murray in the running in Japan triathlon<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a class=\"zemanta-pixie-a\" title=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zemanta.com\/?px\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"zemanta-pixie-img\" alt=\"Enhanced by Zemanta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/68669_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was Richard Murray\u2019s first French Grand Prix win at the sprint triathlon in Les Sables d\u2019Olonne, France, this past weekend. Spain\u2019s Javier Gomez finished second followed by Aur\u00e9lien Lebrun. The conditions were a bit challenging due to the rain and newly painted lines. \u201cI\u2019m really glad I didn\u2019t crash. I did feel my rear [&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-20356","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\/20356","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=20356"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20356\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}