{"id":199419,"date":"2025-06-03T13:05:49","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:05:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-looser-amongst-top-three-in-andorra\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T13:05:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T11:05:49","slug":"namibia-looser-amongst-top-three-in-andorra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-looser-amongst-top-three-in-andorra\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Looser Amongst Top Three in Andorra"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"19\"><em>Vera Looser excelled to finish third at the second leg of the Hero UCI Marathon World Cup on Sunday.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Looser competed against the world&#8217;s top marathon MTB riders at the adventure centre Naturland in the independent principality of Andorra, situated between France and Spain.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">The race took place in Sant Juli\u00e0 de L\u00f2ria, surrounded by the majestic peaks, lush valleys, and dense forests of the Pyrenees. It covered a distance of 60 km reaching an elevation of close to 2 000m.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">Rosa van Doorn of The&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506030242.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vera Looser excelled to finish third at the second leg of the Hero UCI Marathon World Cup on Sunday. Looser competed against the world&#8217;s top marathon MTB riders at the adventure centre Naturland in the independent principality of Andorra, situated between France and Spain. The race took place in Sant Juli\u00e0 de L\u00f2ria, surrounded by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":199420,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,32207,46993,4706,724,257,254,7319],"class_list":["post-199419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-andorra","tag-looser","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-top"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199419","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=199419"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199419\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/199420"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}