Sayed Mahmoud Zia Dashti, head of the Afghanistan Kurash Federation, has confirmed that Ismail Kakaer, a renowned athlete in this traditional martial art, passed away on Wednesday in Germany due to a heart attack.<\/p>\n
According to the federation president, Kakaer suffered a cardiac event while in Germany and died. No further details have been released regarding his medical treatment or the timing of his transfer to a health facility.<\/p>\n
In recent years, Ismail Kakaer was one of the prominent figures of Kurash in Afghanistan. He had won dozens of medals in domestic competitions and last year secured a silver medal for Afghanistan at the international competition in Paris.<\/p>\n
Kurash is a traditional martial art that has gained a special place among the youth of Afghanistan in recent years. Kakaer\u2019s death is considered a significant loss for the country’s sports community, especially athletes involved in this discipline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Ismail Kakaer, a celebrated Afghan Kurash champion, passed away from a heart attack in Germany. He recently won silver at the Paris international competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13897","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}