{"id":202850,"date":"2025-07-20T02:42:51","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-swimmers-making-waves-allafrica-com\/"},"modified":"2025-07-20T02:42:51","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T00:42:51","slug":"namibian-swimmers-making-waves-allafrica-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibian-swimmers-making-waves-allafrica-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibian Swimmers Making Waves &#8211; allAfrica.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"55\"><em>Namibian swimmers are making waves at international events at home and abroad. At the recent Region 5 Youth Games, swimming was by far Namibia&#8217;s most successful code, winning a third of their total medals, while Namibia&#8217;s top long-distance swimmers are now competing against the world&#8217;s best at the World Aquatic Open Water Championships in Singapore.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"51\">At the Youth Games, Namibia finished second overall behind South Africa, with 24 gold, 34 silver, and 32 bronze medals for a total of 90. Of this,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507170610.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>Namibian swimmers are making waves at international events at home and abroad. At the recent Region 5 Youth Games, swimming was by far Namibia&#8217;s most successful code, winning a third of their total medals, while Namibia&#8217;s top long-distance swimmers are now competing against the world&#8217;s best at the World Aquatic Open Water Championships in Singapore. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":202851,"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":[258,256,42655,7717,724,6953,257,254,20559,6925],"class_list":["post-202850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-allafrica-com","tag-making","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swimmers","tag-waves"],"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\/202850","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=202850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}