{"id":23016,"date":"2026-10-01T08:17:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/01\/afghanistan-jiu-jitsu-athlete-reaches-asian-games-quarter-finals\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T08:17:17","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T08:17:17","slug":"afghanistan-jiu-jitsu-athlete-reaches-asian-games-quarter-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/2026\/10\/01\/afghanistan-jiu-jitsu-athlete-reaches-asian-games-quarter-finals\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8217;s Jiu-Jitsu Athlete Reaches Asian Games Quarter-Finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mohammad Sarwar Hosseini, Afghanistan&#8217;s jiu-jitsu athlete, advanced to the quarter-finals of the 2026 Asian Games after defeating his Vietnamese opponent.<\/p>\n<p>He knocked out his rival early this morning in Japan as the competition continued.<\/p>\n<p>In another match, Noorullah Shafaei was defeated by Bahrain&#8217;s Abdullah Ali in the 62-kilogram category and was eliminated from the competition.<\/p>\n<p>The jiu-jitsu events at the Asian Games in Nagoya, Japan, are being held with athletes from more than 40 Asian countries taking part. The competition runs from Oct. 1 to 3 at the Aichi Budokan arena, and Afghanistan&#8217;s national athletes are competing in several different weight classes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Afghanistan&#8217;s Mohammad Sarwar Hosseini reaches the Asian Games jiu-jitsu quarter-finals after beating his Vietnamese opponent in Japan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23016","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\/23016","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=23016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlaspress.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}