{"id":21079,"date":"2013-07-11T23:40:29","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/grmay-time-trials-to-ethiopian-national-title\/"},"modified":"2013-07-11T23:40:29","modified_gmt":"2013-07-11T21:40:29","slug":"grmay-time-trials-to-ethiopian-national-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/grmay-time-trials-to-ethiopian-national-title\/","title":{"rendered":"Grmay time-trials to Ethiopian national title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/mtn-qhubeka-do-it-in-a-team\/\" target=\"_blank\">Tsgabu Grmay<\/a> added another national title to the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/documenting-an-african-bicycle-dream\/\" target=\"_blank\">Team MTN-Qhubeka<\/a> tally, after winning the individual time-trial at the first ever Ethiopian national championships on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Grmay, who is also the country\u2019s first pro cycling export, covered the 28km course in 34 minutes and 14 seconds.<\/p>\n<p>The 21-year-old said his form was really good and he was happy to win. \u201cThis was a major goal that I have been working towards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Ethiopian\u2019s victory adds to the other national titles already in the team.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/thomson-models-national-colours-at-tirreno-adriatico\/\" target=\"_blank\">Jay Thomson<\/a> claimed the South African road race title earlier this year while <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/mtn-qhubeka-wins-team-category-in-korea\/\" target=\"_blank\">Louis Meintjes<\/a> won the U23 road and time-trial championships. Last month, <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/ciolek-and-konovalovas-second-in-national-road-champs\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ignatas Konovalovas<\/a> was crowned Lithuanian time-trial champion for the fourth time.<\/p>\n<p>In March, Grmay won a stage of the Tour of Taiwan en route to finishing second overall. His focus now switches to the road race on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=8701\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-8701\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-8701\" alt=\"Tsgabu Grmay adds National Title with ITT victory. Photo: Team MTN Qhubeka\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/59027_bettiniphoto_0140604_1_full-e1373536759569-600x229.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"229\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tsgabu Grmay adds National Title with ITT victory. 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Grmay, who is also the country\u2019s first pro cycling export, covered the 28km course in 34 minutes and 14 seconds. The 21-year-old said his form was really good and he [&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-21079","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\/21079","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=21079"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21079\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21079"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21079"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21079"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}