Die Bloemfonteinse atletieklegende en wenner van die hoogspringtitel vir vroue by die Olimpiese Spele in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland, Esther Brand is gister op die rype ouderdom van 92 jaar in Bloemfontein oorlede.<\/p>\n
Brand is tot op hede die enigste Suid-Afrikaanse vroue-atleet wat \u2018n goue medalje by \u2018n Olimpiese Spele kon vermag. Sy het gewen met die destydse sk\u00ear-styl met \u2018n hoogte van 1,67 meter.<\/p>\n
Brand het tot \u2018n paar jaar gelede gereeld diens gedoen as hoogspringbeampte by atletiekbyeenkomste.<\/p>\n
Haar man, Jan Brand, het ook sy Springbokleure verwerf toe hy die land in fietsry by die 1948 Olimpiese Spele in Londen verteenwoordig het.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Die Bloemfonteinse atletieklegende en wenner van die hoogspringtitel vir vroue by die Olimpiese Spele in 1952 in Helsinki, Finland, Esther Brand is gister op die rype ouderdom van 92 jaar in Bloemfontein oorlede. Brand is tot op hede die enigste Suid-Afrikaanse vroue-atleet wat \u2018n goue medalje by \u2018n Olimpiese Spele kon vermag. Sy het gewen … Continue reading “Olimpiese atletieklegende oorlede”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52,5],"tags":[21117,20705,20704,20706,16022,9987,20707],"class_list":["post-32571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-c36-afrikaanse-nuus","category-nuus","tag-c81-atletiek","tag-esther-brand","tag-helsinki","tag-hoogspring","tag-olimpiese-atleet","tag-olimpiese-spele","tag-skerstyl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.co.za\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}