{"id":180895,"date":"2024-09-19T23:18:07","date_gmt":"2024-09-19T21:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mpofu-back-in-training\/"},"modified":"2024-09-19T23:18:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T21:18:07","slug":"zimbabwe-mpofu-back-in-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zimbabwe\/zimbabwe-mpofu-back-in-training\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimbabwe: Mpofu Back in Training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"22\">Zimbabwe&#8217;s leading distance runner Isaac Mpofu is already planning his next move just over a month after making his Olympic Games debut.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">He has set next year&#8217;s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan as his next major assignment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">The World Athletics Championships are pencilled in for September 13 to 21, 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"7\">Mpofu is back in training in Bulawayo.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"13\">He targets two more races before he concludes his 2024 season in November.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">He will then take a break before resuming his programme, specifically&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409190455.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>Zimbabwe&#8217;s leading distance runner Isaac Mpofu is already planning his next move just over a month after making his Olympic Games debut. He has set next year&#8217;s World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan as his next major assignment. The World Athletics Championships are pencilled in for September 13 to 21, 2025. Mpofu is back in [&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":[258,256,9782,257,254,4287,4686,421],"class_list":["post-180895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zimbabwe","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-mpofu","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-training","tag-zimbabwe","tag-zimbabwe-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180895","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=180895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180895\/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=180895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}