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Ronan Wantenaar made history on Monday when he became the first Namibian swimmer to qualify for a final at the Commonwealth Games.<\/em><\/p>\n On Sunday, he came second in his first round heat in 27.13 seconds to progress to the semi-finals, in which he came third in 27.21 to make it through to the final.<\/p>\n That was also the fifth-fastest semi-final time and put him in contention for a medal, but competing against some of the world’s top swimmers in the final he had to settle for sixth place in 27.31.<\/p>\n \n <\/p>\n<\/div>\n Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a> Ronan Wantenaar made history on Monday when he became the first Namibian swimmer to qualify for a final at the Commonwealth Games. On Sunday, he came second in his first round heat in 27.13 seconds to progress to the semi-finals, in which he came third in 27.21 to make it through to the final. That […]<\/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":[723],"tags":[258,256,7099,4706,724,6953,257,254,10966,41062],"class_list":["post-239822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-history","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-namibian","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-swimming","tag-wantenaar"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239822","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=239822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239822\/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=239822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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