{"id":17271,"date":"2016-01-23T08:22:26","date_gmt":"2016-01-23T06:22:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=17271"},"modified":"2016-01-23T08:22:26","modified_gmt":"2016-01-23T06:22:26","slug":"mwawi-kumwenda-hits-10000-votes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2016\/01\/23\/mwawi-kumwenda-hits-10000-votes\/","title":{"rendered":"Mwawi Kumwenda hits 10,000 votes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/mwawi4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-17275\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/mwawi4-216x300.jpg\" alt=\"mwawi\" width=\"216\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/mwawi4-216x300.jpg 216w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/mwawi4.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 216px) 100vw, 216px\" \/><\/a>Malawi netball star, Mwawi Kumwenda, continues to garner more votes in the International World Games Association Athlete of the Year award, with her count nearing the 10,000- mark.<\/p>\n<p>At 9,671 votes as of Firday, the New Zealand-based shooter had further widened the gap between herself and the nearest contenders, Dmitry and Olga Kulikova of Russia, who had 3,888.<\/p>\n<p>The German Flying Disc Ultimate Mixed team comes third with 2,704, followed by Regina Jacques of the United States at 1,292 votes.<\/p>\n<p>Mwawi was nominated for the award because of her outstanding performance at last year\u2019s World Netball Cup in New Zealand where her 321 goals in eight matches, converted to a 91 percent success rate, earned her the award of Player-of-the- Tournament award.<\/p>\n<p>Voting continues until January 31. Mwawi herself has taken to Facebook to appeal for more votes.<\/p>\n<p>Mwawi is swimming in glory, being the only African on the 18-member short-list of outstanding athletes seeking the votes.<\/p>\n<p>The winner will be announced on February 1. The former Escom Sisters shooter recently won MBC award and has also clinched a six-month deal as Airtel Malawi Limited brand ambassador.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Malawi netball star, Mwawi Kumwenda, continues to garner more votes in the International World Games Association Athlete of the Year award, with her count nearing the 10,000- mark. At 9,671 votes as of Firday, the New Zealand-based shooter had further widened the gap between herself and the nearest contenders, Dmitry and Olga Kulikova of Russia, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17271"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17276,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17271\/revisions\/17276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}