{"id":22516,"date":"2026-09-23T15:00:16","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/afghanistan-wushu-athletes-bronze-asian-games-japan\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T15:00:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T15:00:16","slug":"afghanistan-wushu-athletes-bronze-asian-games-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/23\/afghanistan-wushu-athletes-bronze-asian-games-japan\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Afghan Wushu Athletes Win Bronze at Asian Games in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two athletes from Afghanistan&#8217;s national wushu team lost to opponents from China in the semi-finals of the competition on Wednesday and won bronze medals at the Asian Games in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Hamed Ashrafi and Mohammad Khalid Hotak both lost their semi-final bouts by points. With this result, the two athletes shared third place.<\/p>\n<p>Before reaching the semi-finals, the two national team members had defeated opponents from Yemen, Macau and Indonesia.<\/p>\n<p>Wushu is considered one of the most popular martial arts in Asia, and Afghanistan has also taken part in this category in some regional and Asian competitions in recent years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Afghan wushu athletes won bronze medals at the Asian Games in Japan after reaching the semi-finals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22515,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22516","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\/22516","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=22516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}