{"id":19762,"date":"2026-08-16T08:52:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/16\/afghan-athletes-win-bronze-at-kurash-competition-in-tajikistan\/"},"modified":"2026-08-16T08:52:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T08:52:48","slug":"afghan-athletes-win-bronze-at-kurash-competition-in-tajikistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/08\/16\/afghan-athletes-win-bronze-at-kurash-competition-in-tajikistan\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Afghan Athletes Win Bronze at Kurash Competition in Tajikistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two Afghan athletes won bronze medals in the international Kurash competition in Tajikistan, in the gi-shin-giri category. Rahimullah Najmi and Zabihullah Ehsani represented Afghanistan in the event.<\/p>\n<p>Rahimullah Najmi, competing in the 65-kilogram category, reached the final round after defeating opponents from Iran and Azerbaijan, but lost to a Russian athlete in the final and finished third.<\/p>\n<p>Zabihullah Ehsani also advanced past competitors from South Korea and Iran in the 78-kilogram category, but later lost to an athlete from Tajikistan and claimed the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Kurash is one of the traditional martial arts of the region, and Tajikistan has hosted international competitions in the sport in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Afghan athletes won bronze medals at the international Kurash competition in Tajikistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-important-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762","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=19762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19762\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}