{"id":175956,"date":"2024-07-05T19:56:34","date_gmt":"2024-07-05T17:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-two-zim-swimmers-qualify-for-2024-paris-olympics\/"},"modified":"2024-07-05T19:56:34","modified_gmt":"2024-07-05T17:56:34","slug":"zimbabwe-two-zim-swimmers-qualify-for-2024-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-two-zim-swimmers-qualify-for-2024-paris-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Two Zim Swimmers Qualify for 2024 Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Swimmers Denilson Cyprianos and Paige van der Weisthuizen have qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"12\">The duo qualified through a universality slot after missing standard qualifying times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">Cyprianos and Weisthuizen qualification took Zimbabwe&#8217;s tally of qualified athletes to seven as they join Makanaka Charamba, Rutendo Nyahora, Tapiwanashe Makarawu, Isaac Mpofu and Steven Cox.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Zimbabwe Olympics Committee has set a target of having 10 athletes qualify. With only a few days to go before the&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050145.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zimbabwe\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/\">Zimbabwe<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Swimmers Denilson Cyprianos and Paige van der Weisthuizen have qualified for the 2024 Paris Olympics. The duo qualified through a universality slot after missing standard qualifying times. Cyprianos and Weisthuizen qualification took Zimbabwe&#8217;s tally of qualified athletes to seven as they join Makanaka Charamba, Rutendo Nyahora, Tapiwanashe Makarawu, Isaac Mpofu and Steven Cox. The Zimbabwe [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[248],"tags":[258,256,257,12022,15620,7867,254,20559,6923,4686,421],"class_list":["post-175956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-qualify","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swimmers","tag-zim","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175956","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}