{"id":20540,"date":"2025-12-05T08:57:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T06:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/asa-launches-nationwide-search-for-marathon-talent\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:31:50","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:31:50","slug":"asa-launches-nationwide-search-for-marathon-talent","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/asa-launches-nationwide-search-for-marathon-talent\/","title":{"rendered":"ASA launches nationwide search for marathon talent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Athletics South Africa (ASA) is set to undertake a countrywide search for emerging marathon runners to strengthen both the men\u2019s and women\u2019s divisions, according to road running Chairperson Enock Skosana.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The announcement comes after a challenging outing at the World Athletics Championships in Tokyo in September, where Elroy Gelant was SA\u2019s sole representative in the marathon.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Skosana said the initiative aims to broaden the talent pool and uncover promising athletes who are prepared to commit to representing the nation on the international stage. \u201cIt\u2019s time to find athletes willing to step up and put their country first,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The programme will focus on nurturing young runners and building depth in SA\u2019s marathon teams ahead of next year\u2019s key competitions.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":20541,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[20],"class_list":["post-20540","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-sport","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"Athletics South Africa (ASA) is set to undertake a countrywide search for emerging marathon runners","published_date":"2025-12-05 10:56:02","news_description":"Athletics South Africa (ASA) is set to undertake a countrywide search for emerging marathon runners","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24539,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/20540\/revisions\/24539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=20540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}