{"id":55152,"date":"2015-09-22T18:34:54","date_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:34:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/2015\/09\/uj-athletes-bring-home-four-medals-from-african-games\/"},"modified":"2015-09-22T18:34:54","modified_gmt":"2015-09-22T16:34:54","slug":"uj-athletes-bring-home-four-medals-from-african-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/uj-athletes-bring-home-four-medals-from-african-games\/","title":{"rendered":"UJ athletes bring home four medals from African Games"},"content":{"rendered":"
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University of Johannesburg high jumper Kabelo Kgosiemang took gold for Botswana with a vertical leap of 2.25m at the African Games in Congo earlier this month. Photo: Supplied<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

The University of Johannesburg’s sporting representatives brought four medals home with them when they returned from the African Games in Congo this week.<\/p>\n

The competitors did the university proud, collecting a gold, two silvers and a bronze in the three-week continental tournament.<\/p>\n

Leading the pack was UJ high jumper Kabelo Kgosiemang, whose leap of 2.25m was enough to secure the top step of the podium for Botswana.<\/p>\n

Gymnast Claudia Cummins vaulted to silver, while swimmer Kelly Gunnell also bagged the runner-up spot in the 200m breast stroke.<\/p>\n

Jaco Engelbrecht’s bronze medal for shot put completed their medal tally.<\/p>\n

According to UJ sports manager Francois Fouch\u00e9, the institution was proud of their successes but had been hoping for a few more medal-winning performances.<\/p>\n

“We have very high standards, and we are used to better,” said Fouch\u00e9.<\/p>\n

“I understand that some of our athletes had to withdraw from their events for\u00a0 variety of reasons, but I believe we had the potential to bring more medals home.”<\/p>\n

He said the fact that the IAAF World Championships and the African Games had been held a matter of weeks apart could have impacted on their performances.<\/p>\n

“While we believe a better result was possible, we will take many positive points from out athletes’ performances,” added Fouch\u00e9.<\/p>\n

Triple jumper Roger Haitengi just missed the podium with his leap of 16.4m for Namibia, while Zinzi Chabangu grabbed fifth place in the women’s event with a 13.00m jump.<\/p>\n

Fouch\u00e9 praised Chabangu’s efforts, saying she was still a junior athlete competing at senior level.<\/p>\n

“She’s a young star who still has a bright future ahead.”<\/p>\n

He said the African Games had provided UJ with an opportunity to review their strategy in terms of preparing athletes for international competition.<\/p>\n

“At this stage it is probably too late for the 2016 Olympics, but we are definitely looking forward to the 2020 Olympics and the 2022 Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n

“If we focus on our key disciplines and develop the current and incoming talent, we could have some very successful campaigns in the coming years,” said Fouch\u00e9.
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University of Johannesburg high jumper Kabelo Kgosiemang took gold for Botswana with a vertical leap of 2.25m at the African Games in Congo earlier this month. Photo: Supplied The University of Johannesburg’s sporting representatives brought four medals home with them when they returned from the African Games in Congo this week. The competitors did the […]<\/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":[3332],"tags":[3050,1778,2299,4745,3445,8108,3675,8592],"class_list":{"0":"post-55152","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-johannesburg-south-africa","7":"tag-african","8":"tag-athletes","9":"tag-bring","10":"tag-four","11":"tag-from","12":"tag-games","13":"tag-home","14":"tag-medals","15":"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\/55152","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=55152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}