{"id":43151,"date":"2017-03-25T09:09:30","date_gmt":"2017-03-25T07:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=43151"},"modified":"2017-03-25T09:09:31","modified_gmt":"2017-03-25T07:09:31","slug":"athlete-wins-south-africa-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2017\/03\/25\/athlete-wins-south-africa-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Athlete wins South Africa award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa-based Malawian athlete Jimmy Bonjesi has been named Whalers Athletics Club\u2019s Best Male Athlete and Athlete of-the Year 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Bonjesi was rewarded for his outstanding performance last year when he helped Whalers Club break records of several races.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn top of the trophy, I also received six certificates of recognition for my exploits in different athletics field,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am very proud of my achievement. I am the best athlete as I have also beaten [broken] two club records in 5km time trial and Cape Town Marathon.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bonjesi said his mission was to represent Malawi in international competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis will encourage other local athletes in my country. We have good athletes but lack of support and exposure are pulling them down,\u201d said the former amateur footballer.<\/p>\n<p>Bonjesi has set his sights on the Sanlam Cape Town race scheduled for September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa-based Malawian athlete Jimmy Bonjesi has been named Whalers Athletics Club\u2019s Best Male Athlete and Athlete of-the Year 2016. Bonjesi was rewarded for his outstanding performance last year when he helped Whalers Club break records of several races. \u201cOn top of the trophy, I also received six certificates of recognition for my exploits in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43153,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-43151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43151","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=43151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43155,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43151\/revisions\/43155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}