{"id":21495,"date":"2013-07-29T12:29:00","date_gmt":"2013-07-29T10:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/brown-first-south-african-to-make-fina-finals\/"},"modified":"2013-07-29T12:29:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-29T10:29:00","slug":"brown-first-south-african-to-make-fina-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/brown-first-south-african-to-make-fina-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown first South African to make FINA finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=11187\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11187\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11187\" alt=\"Miles Brown. Photo: Gallo Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6bc95_9738ac82648d4d50b59f051302a76fdf.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"240\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Miles Brown. Photo: Gallo Images<\/p>\n<p>Freestyle swimmer Miles Brown became the first South African on Sunday, July 28, to go through to the finals at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/le-clos-aims-for-gold-in-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\">FINA swimming world championships<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Brown finished fourth in his 400m heat in a personal best time of three minutes 47.17 seconds for the fifth best time overall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was pretty happy with my swim. A personal best in a morning swim is not bad,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is my first final in a major international meeting, so I will take that. I am not expecting too much from the final on Sunday evening as I am up against some <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/le-clos-aims-for-gold-in-barcelona\/\" target=\"_blank\">very good swimmers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut if I manage to swim PBs (personal bests), I will be happy and hopefully I can do that for the rest of my swims also,\u201d he said. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sapa<\/a><\/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\/phelps-and-le-clos-swim-with-sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6bc95_188075491_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/phelps-and-le-clos-swim-with-sharks\/\" target=\"_blank\">Phelps and le Clos swim with sharks<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/swimming-world-hopes-for-life-after-phelps\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6bc95_188388712_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/swimming-world-hopes-for-life-after-phelps\/\" target=\"_blank\">Swimming world hopes for life after Phelps<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/zwemza.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/22\/high-hopes-for-sa-swimmers\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/6bc95_187300689_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/zwemza.wordpress.com\/2013\/07\/22\/high-hopes-for-sa-swimmers\/\" target=\"_blank\">High hopes for SA swimmers<\/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\/d33a7_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miles Brown. Photo: Gallo Images Freestyle swimmer Miles Brown became the first South African on Sunday, July 28, to go through to the finals at the FINA swimming world championships. Brown finished fourth in his 400m heat in a personal best time of three minutes 47.17 seconds for the fifth best time overall. \u201cI was [&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-21495","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\/21495","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=21495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21495\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}