{"id":78212,"date":"2019-05-22T02:37:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T00:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/?p=78212"},"modified":"2019-05-22T02:37:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T00:37:16","slug":"doreen-dee-kumbatila-8th-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/2019\/05\/22\/doreen-dee-kumbatila-8th-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"Doreen Dee Kumbatila 8th in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em>By Mphatso Malidadi:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_78215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-78215\" style=\"width: 263px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/doreen-kumbatila.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-78215\" src=\"http:\/\/www.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/doreen-kumbatila.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"263\" height=\"365\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/doreen-kumbatila.jpg 263w, https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/doreen-kumbatila-216x300.jpg 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-78215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">DETERMINED\u2014Kumbatila on stage<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Malawi\u2019s top female bodybuilder, Doreen Dee Kumbatila, finished eighth out of 35 participants to the Arnold Schwarzenegger <a href=\"https:\/\/ewn.co.za\/2019\/05\/18\/the-arnold-classic-africa-festival-it-just-keeps-getting-bigger\">Classic show<\/a> in South Africa on Friday.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cThe stage, this year, was bigger as I was participating in Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic show which is competed for at global level as compared to last year\u2019s Gentle Giant competition which is competed for at a continental level,\u201d<\/em> she said on Monday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Kumbatila said she gained valuable lessons from the competition.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>\u201cIt was an eye-opener posing on stage and also knowing how one\u2019s body should be defined to compete in a competition of this magnitude. My overall analysis was that the show was an eye-opener to me and competing in it has made me become better than Tuesday,\u201d<\/em> she said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Last year, Kumbatira finished fourth at the Gentle Giant competition which South Africa hosted.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Mphatso Malidadi: Malawi\u2019s top female bodybuilder, Doreen Dee Kumbatila, finished eighth out of 35 participants to the Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic show in South Africa on Friday. \u201cThe stage, this year, was bigger as I was participating in Arnold Schwarzenegger Classic show which is competed for at global level as compared to last year\u2019s Gentle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":78216,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-78212","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\/78212","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=78212"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":78217,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78212\/revisions\/78217"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78216"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.times.mw\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}