{"id":18778,"date":"2014-11-20T20:00:21","date_gmt":"2014-11-20T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/?p=18778"},"modified":"2023-01-08T13:32:49","modified_gmt":"2023-01-08T11:32:49","slug":"syria-wins-a-gold-in-asian-beach-games-bringing-medal-tally-to-seven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/?p=18778","title":{"rendered":"Syria wins a gold in Asian Beach Games, bringing medal tally to seven"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, SANA \u2013 Athlete Majd-Eddin Ghazal, member of the Syrian national athletics team, won on Thursday a gold medal in high jump competition within the Fourth Asian Beach Games held in the Thai island of Phuket, which will run through Monday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Ghazal was ranked first after jumping 194 cm, while an athlete from\u00a0Kazakhstan came second jumping 191 cm, ahead of a Qatari athlete who came third with a 188 cm high jump.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ismael-Bteih-muay-thai.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-18814\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ismael-Bteih-muay-thai-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"Ismael Bteih-muay thai\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ismael-Bteih-muay-thai-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ismael-Bteih-muay-thai-150x79.jpg 150w, https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/Ismael-Bteih-muay-thai.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Later on the day, Ismael Bteih beat a Tajikistani athlete in muay thai (81 kg), securing the bronze medal before playing the semi-final game tomorrow.<\/p>\n<p>Syrian athletes have won seven medals so far in the Games; a gold to Ghazal, a silver to Amin Salama (high jump) and five bronzes to Maher al-Khayat (wrestling), Saleh Mohammad (swimming), Nadia al-Assaf (Sambo) and Methqal al-Jazmati (Kurash).<\/p>\n<p>Rasha Milhem\/Haifa Said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bangkok, SANA \u2013 Athlete Majd-Eddin Ghazal, member of the Syrian national athletics team, won on Thursday a gold medal in high jump competition within the Fourth Asian Beach Games held in the Thai island of Phuket, which will run through Monday. &nbsp; Ghazal was ranked first after jumping 194 cm, while an athlete from\u00a0Kazakhstan came &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3099,3146],"class_list":["post-18778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-sport","tag-asian-beach-games","tag-majd-eddin-ghazal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.sana.sy\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}