{"id":20716,"date":"2013-06-26T23:05:29","date_gmt":"2013-06-26T21:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/grand-prix-title-heading-for-makhanya\/"},"modified":"2013-06-26T23:05:29","modified_gmt":"2013-06-26T21:05:29","slug":"grand-prix-title-heading-for-makhanya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/grand-prix-title-heading-for-makhanya\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Prix title heading for Makhanya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=6308\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6308\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6308 \" alt=\"Rutendo Nyahora and Mapaseka Makhanya ahead of the pack (Diana-Lebo Phalula, Christine Kalmer and Rene Kalmer) during Sunday's race. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/f9d20_durbs22small.jpg\" width=\"338\" height=\"293\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rutendo Nyahora and Mapaseka Makhanya ahead of the pack (Diana-Lebo Phalula, Christine Kalmer and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Ren\u00e9 Kalmer\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ren%C3%A9_Kalmer\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Rene Kalmer<\/a>) during Sunday\u2019s race.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that the SPAR Grand Prix title is heading for a new winner \u2013 Mapaseka Makhanye.<\/p>\n<p>Makhanya was victorious in the SPAR Women\u2019s 10km Challenge in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Durban\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-29.8833333333,31.05spn=0.1,0.1q=-29.8833333333,31.05 (Durban)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Durban<\/a> on Sunday. The battle for the title appears to be the closest in the Grand Prix\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>After running neck and neck with Rutendo Nyahora, who won the first two Challenges this year, Makhanya made her break at 5km on Sunday and showed the rest of the field a clean pair of heels.<\/p>\n<p>Her victory, in a personal best time of 32.49 minutes, earned her 30 Grand Prix points and boosted her to 67 points.<\/p>\n<p>The Grand Prix has become a major element on South Africa\u2019s road-running calendar, with South Africa\u2019s best runners battling it out for top honours in the five Challenge races, which are held in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Cape Town\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-33.9252777778,18.4238888889spn=0.1,0.1q=-33.9252777778,18.4238888889 (Cape%20Town)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Cape Town<\/a>, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Port Elizabeth\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-33.9580555556,25.6spn=0.1,0.1q=-33.9580555556,25.6 (Port%20Elizabeth)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Port Elizabeth<\/a>, Durban, <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Pretoria\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-25.7461111111,28.1880555556spn=0.1,0.1q=-25.7461111111,28.1880555556 (Pretoria)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Pretoria<\/a> and <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Johannesburg\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=-26.2044444444,28.0455555556spn=0.1,0.1q=-26.2044444444,28.0455555556 (Johannesburg)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Johannesburg<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The winner this year will receive a personalised <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Nissan Micra\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Nissan_Micra\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"wikipedia\">Nissan Micra<\/a> car and the runner-up will take home R30 000.<\/p>\n<p>Runners earn Grand Prix points according to their positions in the five Challenge races. The top 20 runners in each race earn Grand Prix points, with the winner receiving 20 and the 20th-placed runner one point.<\/p>\n<p>Since its introduction in 2007, the Grand Prix title has been shared between teammates, Rene Kalmer and Irvette van Zyl, with Poppy Mlambo named the winner in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>But this time it is Kalmer\u2019s younger sister, Christine, who is challenging Makhanya.<\/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\/track-runner-becomes-queen-of-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/1bb0a_179346505_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/track-runner-becomes-queen-of-the-road\/\" target=\"_blank\">Track runner becomes queen of the road<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/spar-grand-prix-wide-open\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/1bb0a_178695506_80_802.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/spar-grand-prix-wide-open\/\" target=\"_blank\">SPAR Grand Prix wide open<\/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\/1bb0a_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rutendo Nyahora and Mapaseka Makhanya ahead of the pack (Diana-Lebo Phalula, Christine Kalmer and Rene Kalmer) during Sunday\u2019s race. It appears that the SPAR Grand Prix title is heading for a new winner \u2013 Mapaseka Makhanye. Makhanya was victorious in the SPAR Women\u2019s 10km Challenge in Durban on Sunday. The battle for the title appears [&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-20716","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\/20716","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=20716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}