{"id":22771,"date":"2013-09-22T03:00:56","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/mokoka-and-kalmer-defend-their-titles\/"},"modified":"2013-09-22T03:00:56","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T01:00:56","slug":"mokoka-and-kalmer-defend-their-titles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/mokoka-and-kalmer-defend-their-titles\/","title":{"rendered":"Mokoka and Kalmer defend their titles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t    <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/?attachment_id=17514\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-17514\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17514\" alt=\"Stephen Mokoka. Photo: Sapa\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/5107b_Stephen_Mokoka.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stephen Mokoka. Photo: Sapa<\/p>\n<p>Long-distance runner, Stephen Mokoka successfully defended his title at the SA Half-Marathon Championships in East London on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>Mokoka crossed the line in one hour, two minutes and 45 seconds (1:02:45) and was followed home by Lusapho April, 22 seconds adrift, with recently crowned SA Cross Country Champ Elroy Gelant finishing third.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s race, <a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/no-pressure-for-kalmer-at-first-womens-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rene Kalmer defended her title, outclassing SA marathon champion Cornelia Joubert who came in second while Zimbabwean Rutendo Nyahora finished third<\/a>. \u2013 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iol.co.za\/\" target=\"_blank\">Sapa<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more Rene Kalmer news,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/tag\/rene-kalmer\/\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For more breaking sporting news and views, visit MySport24 on\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MySport24\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/mysport24?ref=hl\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/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\/south-african-athletes-pull-out-of-world-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/5107b_191676026_80_801.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/south-african-athletes-pull-out-of-world-championships\/\" target=\"_blank\">SA athletes pull out of World Championships<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"zemanta-article-ul-li-image zemanta-article-ul-li\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/schools-can-score-at-johannesburg-spar-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/plugins\/rss-poster\/cache\/5107b_201831008_80_80.jpg\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/mysport24.co.za\/schools-can-score-at-johannesburg-spar-challenge\/\" target=\"_blank\">Schools can score at Johannesburg Spar Challenge<\/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\/5107b_zemified_h.png\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen Mokoka. Photo: Sapa Long-distance runner, Stephen Mokoka successfully defended his title at the SA Half-Marathon Championships in East London on Saturday. Mokoka crossed the line in one hour, two minutes and 45 seconds (1:02:45) and was followed home by Lusapho April, 22 seconds adrift, with recently crowned SA Cross Country Champ Elroy Gelant finishing [&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-22771","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\/22771","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=22771"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22771\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22771"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22771"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22771"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}