{"id":21764,"date":"2013-08-08T00:59:18","date_gmt":"2013-08-07T22:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/sa-athletes-pull-out-of-world-championships\/"},"modified":"2013-08-08T00:59:18","modified_gmt":"2013-08-07T22:59:18","slug":"sa-athletes-pull-out-of-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/sa-athletes-pull-out-of-world-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"SA athletes pull out of World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=12744\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12744\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-12744\" alt=\"Lusapho April. Photo: Gallo Images\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/8762b_701959466.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lusapho April. Photo: Gallo Images<\/p>\n<p>South Africa\u2019s hope of a good showing in the men\u2019s marathon event at the <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/bolt-parties-it-up-ahead-of-world-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\">Athletics World Championships<\/a> in <a class=\"zem_slink\" title=\"Moscow\" href=\"http:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?ll=55.75,37.6166666667spn=0.1,0.1q=55.75,37.6166666667 (Moscow)t=h\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"geolocation\">Moscow<\/a> was dealt a further blow yesterday when <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/night-of-the-stars-at-investec-night-relay\/\" target=\"_blank\">Lusapho April<\/a> pulled out due to an Achilles injury.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very disappointed I will miss the world champs,\u201d April said on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have Achilles tendonitis and it could take weeks or months to heal, but hopefully it won\u2019t be too long.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The six-athlete provisional marathon team was sized down to only three after <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/no-pressure-for-kalmer-at-first-womens-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Irvette van Zyl<\/a> withdrew from the women\u2019s team.<\/p>\n<p>An administrative blunder by Athletics SA (ASA) also saw Cornelia Joubert being withdrawn from the team.<\/p>\n<p>Joubert ran a qualification time of two hours 39 minutes (2:39) at the Orange Marathon in Mauritius in June, but it was later discovered the event was not recognised as a qualification event by the IAAF.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier South Africa\u2019s top long-distance runner <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/grand-prix-title-heading-for-makhanya\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rene Kalmer<\/a> declared herself unavailable for selection as she was not fully fit to compete at the highest level.<\/p>\n<p>April\u2019s withdrawal left South Africa with only three representatives in the marathon.<\/p>\n<p>South Africa would now be represented by <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/andreas-runs-into-athletics-spotlight\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hendrick Ramaala<\/a> and Sibusiso Mzima in the men\u2019s race, while Tanith Maxwell will be the only women her event. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sapa<\/a><\/p>\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\/021a8_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lusapho April. Photo: Gallo Images South Africa\u2019s hope of a good showing in the men\u2019s marathon event at the Athletics World Championships in Moscow was dealt a further blow yesterday when Lusapho April pulled out due to an Achilles injury. \u201cI\u2019m very disappointed I will miss the world champs,\u201d April said on Tuesday. \u201cI have [&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-21764","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\/21764","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=21764"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21764\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}