{"id":22568,"date":"2026-09-24T12:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/afghan-athletes-win-bronze-medals-at-asian-games-in-nagoya\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T12:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T12:33:18","slug":"afghan-athletes-win-bronze-medals-at-asian-games-in-nagoya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/afghan-athletes-win-bronze-medals-at-asian-games-in-nagoya\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Afghan athletes win bronze medals at Asian Games in Nagoya"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Khalid Hotak and Hamed Ashrafi have won two bronze medals for Afghanistan at the 20th Asian Games in Nagoya. Hotak claimed his medal in the 70-kilogram weight class, while Ashrafi secured his in the 65-kilogram category.<\/p>\n<p>According to the published information, Mohammad Khalid Hotak defeated his Yemeni opponent in his opening bout, and Hamed Ashrafi also won his first match against an athlete from Macau, China.<\/p>\n<p>Both athletes then overcame their Indonesian opponents in the second round, but were beaten by Chinese rivals in their third contests, earning bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>Nagoya is one of Japan&#8217;s major cities, and this round of the competition was held as part of the Asian Games, which provide an important opportunity for athletes from regional countries to test their technical abilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Afghan athletes win bronze medals at the Asian Games in Nagoya after strong early-round victories.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22568","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\/22568","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=22568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}