{"id":3036,"date":"2017-08-01T13:20:59","date_gmt":"2017-08-01T12:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=3036"},"modified":"2022-08-22T18:29:21","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T17:29:21","slug":"farnhams-richard-allen-looking-to-raise-2600-to-compete-at-aquathlon-world-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/?p=3036","title":{"rendered":"Farnham\u2019s Richard Allen seeks funding to compete at Aquathlon World Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><strong>Friends and family of Farnham Swimming Club\u2019s Richard Allen are looking to raise more than \u00a32,600 so he can compete at this year\u2019s Aquathlon World Championships in Canada.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-3035 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/RichardAllen.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"222\" height=\"272\" \/>The meet, to be held at Okanagan Lake in Okanagan Valley, British Columbia, on Friday 25 August, consists of a 1,000m open water swim followed by a 5,000m off-track run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Chris Lee, president of Farnham SC, said it was unfortunate that athlete funding was unavailable nationally for the event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">He said: \u201cWe are seeking support from local businesses and organisations in order to raise in excess of \u00a32,600 to pay for Richard\u2019s travel and accommodation.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Lee added that Richard&#8217;s parents would be paying for his food and kit, including his support costs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">Richard won silver in the under-23 category at last year\u2019s world championships in Mexico and has been a national aquathlon champion for the last two years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: georgia, palatino, serif; font-size: 12pt;\">For more information about sponsorship or to make a donation contact Chris &#8211; <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">chris.lee@staxgroup.com<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than \u00a32,600 looking to be raised for Farnham\u2019s Richard Allen to be able to compete at this year\u2019s Aquathlon World Championships.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3035,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3036","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured","8":"category-news","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3036"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9111,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3036\/revisions\/9111"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surreyswimming.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}