{"id":247222,"date":"2025-10-28T21:59:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:59:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247222\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T21:59:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T21:59:25","slug":"fatemeh-rastegar-makes-history-with-irans-first-ever-womens-boxing-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/247222\/","title":{"rendered":"Fatemeh Rastegar Makes History With Iran\u2019s First-ever Women\u2019s Boxing Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rastegar advanced to the semifinals, where she faced an opponent from Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n<p>Despite a hard-fought performance, the Iranian athlete was defeated, securing the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Her achievement is particularly significant as it comes during Iran\u2019s first participation in an international women\u2019s boxing event.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian women\u2019s boxing team entered the Bahrain tournament with a three-athlete roster, signaling a milestone in the country\u2019s expanding presence in women\u2019s sports.<\/p>\n<p>Officials praised Rastegar\u2019s accomplishment as a \u201chistoric breakthrough\u201d for Iranian boxing, underscoring growing efforts to support female athletes in disciplines once limited to men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rastegar advanced to the semifinals, where she faced an opponent from Kazakhstan. Despite a hard-fought performance, the Iranian&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247223,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[64,63,802,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-247222","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boxing","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-boxing","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=247222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}