{"id":59461,"date":"2018-01-23T07:36:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-23T05:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=59461"},"modified":"2018-01-23T07:36:23","modified_gmt":"2018-01-23T05:36:23","slug":"x-country-february-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2018\/01\/23\/x-country-february-17\/","title":{"rendered":"X-country February 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The national cross-country championship is scheduled to take place at Mzuzu Golf Course on February 17, Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) has confirmed.<br \/>\nAAM General Secretary, Frank Chitembeya, said the competition will be used to identify athletes to represent Malawi at the Confederation of African Athletics Southern Africa Cross- Country Championship on March 3 in Mauritius.<br \/>\nChitembeya said athletes to compete at the national event will be selected from regional qualifiers on February 3.<br \/>\n\u201cWe will have athletes representing various clubs across the country. Individual athletes are also welcome. This is an opportunity for our athletes to prove that they can win medals for the country at the regional event,\u201d Chitembeya said.<br \/>\nHe said winners at the Mauritius event will qualify for the African Cross-Country Championship in Algeria.<br \/>\nIn the Northern Region, the qualifiers will take place at Embangweni, while Mponela will host Central Region qualifiers and Balaka will host qualifiers for the Southern Region.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, Malawi Defence Force athletes stepped up their preparations with a cross-country contest at Lilongwe Golf Club.<br \/>\nRunners such as Kefas Kasten, Ndacha Mcherenje, Chancy Master in the men\u2019s category and Cecilia Mhango, Nancy Matanda and Mary Kamwendo in the ladies\u2019 stole the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The national cross-country championship is scheduled to take place at Mzuzu Golf Course on February 17, Athletics Association of Malawi (AAM) has confirmed. AAM General Secretary, Frank Chitembeya, said the competition will be used to identify athletes to represent Malawi at the Confederation of African Athletics Southern Africa Cross- Country Championship on March 3 in [&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-59461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59461","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=59461"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59464,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59461\/revisions\/59464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}