{"id":236763,"date":"2022-09-11T15:17:23","date_gmt":"2022-09-11T13:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?p=121169"},"modified":"2022-09-11T15:17:23","modified_gmt":"2022-09-11T13:17:23","slug":"stadium-experience-could-become-a-fixture-for-gqeberha-women","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/stadium-experience-could-become-a-fixture-for-gqeberha-women\/","title":{"rendered":"Stadium Experience could become a fixture for Gqeberha women"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"scaip scaip-1 \">\n<aside id=\"republication_tracker_tool-2\" class=\"republication_tracker_tool clearfix\">\n<h5 class=\"adtitle\">Republish for Free<\/h5>\n<div class=\"license\">\n<p><button name=\"Republish This Story\" id=\"cc-btn\" class=\"republication-tracker-tool-button\">Republish This Story<\/button><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"license\" rel=\"noreferrer license noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nd\/4.0\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" class=\"lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stadium-experience-could-become-a-fixture-for-gqeberha-women.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Creative Commons License\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stadium-experience-could-become-a-fixture-for-gqeberha-women.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"message\">\n<p>Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<\/aside>\n<figure id=\"attachment_121170\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-121170\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/?attachment_id=121170\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"200\" class=\"wp-image-121170 size-thumbnail lazyload\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stadium-experience-could-become-a-fixture-for-gqeberha-women.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-121170 size-thumbnail\" src=\"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/stadium-experience-could-become-a-fixture-for-gqeberha-women.jpg\" alt width=\"300\" height=\"200\"><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-121170\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SPAR Women\u2019s Virtual Challenge participants were treated to a real Stadium Experience at the Nelson Mandela Stadium in Gqeberha. Photo: Leon Hugo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>After a prolonged period of virtual events, women of all descriptions descended on the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Gqeberha on Saturday for a 4.5km social run in celebration of health and togetherness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs we started moving away from Covid, we felt we needed to revert to an actual event,\u201d said SPAR EC sponsorships and events manager Alan Stapleton, whose team organised what they termed a real \u201cStadium Experience\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe saw it as an opportunity to get members of the public together again and based on the feedback it had been heaps of fun on what turned out to be a perfect spring morning,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>With the initial event well-received, they were already looking into the feasibility of staging it as an annual event and Stapleton hoped that it would be embraced in a similar fashion to the 27 editions of the Women\u2019s Challenge until 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Apart from the camaraderie that has been the hallmark of the SPAR Women\u2019s Challenge over the years, Stadium Experience participants got up close and personal with the iconic venue as they navigated a fun course that took them all the way up to the fifth tier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey climbed the ramps to the top level and got a bird\u2019s eye view of the pitch,\u201d said Stapleton. \u201cIt really epitomised the Virtual Challenge theme of #IRise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After scaling the heights of the purpose-built structure, the route led runners down to the B-field and onto what he described as the \u201cwonderful area of the start and finish adjacent to the stadium\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Stapleton paid tribute to the Women\u2019s Virtual Challenge ambassadors, who encouraged the public via their social channels to take on the Stadium Experience.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was also a great opportunity for them to mix with the participants and we can only say a big thank you to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SPAR EC donated more than 1 000 packs of sanitary pads to the Petals Project, which will distribute these to schools in lesser resourced communities to curb absenteeism among their pupils.<\/p>\n<p>To restrict participation numbers during the pandemic, the SPAR Women\u2019s Challenge\u2019s Grand Prix Series for competitive athletes was run separately from the social event and during this time the latter was held in a virtual format.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mypr.co.za\/contact\/featured\/\">CLICK HERE to submit your press release to MyPR.co.za<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <span class=\"post-views-icon dashicons dashicons-chart-bar\"><\/span> <span class=\"post-views-label\">Press Release Views since 1 July 2022:<\/span> <span class=\"post-views-count\">110<\/span> <\/p>\n<div class=\"entry-pagination pagination\">Pages: <span class=\"post-page-numbers current\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>1<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\/stadium-experience-could-become-a-fixture-for-gqeberha-women\/2\/\" class=\"post-page-numbers\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Page <\/span>2<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mypr.co.za\">Source: MyPR.co.za<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republish for Free Republish This Story Republish our articles for free, online or in print, under a Creative Commons license. 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