{"id":19584,"date":"2015-07-24T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2015-07-24T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/2015\/07\/24\/junior-track-team-announcement-for-junior-world-champs-astana-kaz-r3158\/"},"modified":"2023-02-08T14:17:56","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T14:17:56","slug":"junior-track-team-announcement-for-junior-world-champs-astana-kaz-r3158","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/junior-track-team-announcement-for-junior-world-champs-astana-kaz-r3158\/","title":{"rendered":"Junior Track team announcement for Junior World Champs \u2013 Astana (KAZ)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling South Africa\u2019s Track Commission has great pleasure in announcing that the following riders have been selected to represent South Africa at the 2015 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan from 19-23 August.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"ipsAttachLink ipsAttachLink_image\" href=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-15253100-1437728214-1.jpg\" data-fileid=\"569711\" data-fileext=\"jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" data-fileid=\"569711\" class=\"ipsImage ipsImage_thumbnailed\" alt=\"ccs-62657-0-15253100-1437728214.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.bikehub.co.za\/production\/uploads\/2023\/02\/ccs-62657-0-15253100-1437728214-1.jpg\" title=\"\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"italic text-sm text-slate-500 block mt-1 mb-4\">The Saryarka Velodrome in Astana, Kazakhstan, is constructed in the shape of a racer\u2019s helmet and not only houses a cycling track, but its 58,000 metre square surface area contains numerous other amenities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Endurance events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Joshua Van Wyk<\/p>\n<p>Sheldon Lahner<\/p>\n<p>John Vlok<\/p>\n<p>Waylin Young*<\/p>\n<p>Ekhard Binding**<\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Sparrow (Team Pursuit Squad)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sprint events:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mitchell Sparrow<\/p>\n<p>Alroy Palm<\/p>\n<p>Bradley Gouveris<\/p>\n<p>Wade Theunissen<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Abbot<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team Management:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Annerine Wenhold (Team Manager, Tour Organiser &amp; Head Coach)<\/p>\n<p>Martin van Wyk (Assistant Manager &amp; Assistant Endurance Coach)<\/p>\n<p>Tim Abbot (Team Mechanic &amp; Assistant Sprinters Coach)<\/p>\n<p>We have a strong team pursuit squad for our men, and we expect good times from the squad at the event. The team has set its objective towards improvement of the current SA Junior Team Pursuit Record.<\/p>\n<p>Further event to watch out for is the Men\u2019s 1000m TT. Mitch Sparrow set the fastest time in South Africa this year across all racing categories and we expect good results from him.<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations on your selection and we wish you every success.<\/p>\n<p>*Waylin Young has withdrawn from the team as he is participating in Europe in order to secure UCI points (road)<\/p>\n<p>**Ekhard Binding has withdrawn from the team due to illness<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cycling South Africa\u2019s Track Commission has great pleasure in announcing that the following riders have been selected to represent South Africa at the 2015 UCI Junior Track Cycling World Championships in Astana, Kazakhstan from 19-23 August. The Saryarka Velodrome in Astana, Kazakhstan, is constructed in the shape of a racer\u2019s helmet and not only houses [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":56332,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[3761,3762,1696],"featured_location":[],"class_list":["post-19584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-junior-track-team","tag-junior-world-champs","tag-track"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19584"},{"taxonomy":"featured_location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bikehub.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/featured_location?post=19584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}