{"id":665217,"date":"2026-05-12T03:51:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665217\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T03:51:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T03:51:14","slug":"kazakhstan-womens-rugby-team-claims-silver-at-asian-championships-in-almaty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/665217\/","title":{"rendered":"Kazakhstan women\u2019s rugby team claims silver at Asian Championships in Almaty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"274\" data-end=\"438\">In the match for second place, the Kazakh team drew 26\u201326 with Hong Kong. Based on additional criteria, Kazakhstan secured second place in the tournament standings.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-picture\" title=\"Kazakhstan women\u2019s rugby team claims silver at Asian Championships in Almaty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/3b40b8a9-e547-43b8-b7bb-4b49763b0ddb.jpeg\" alt=\"Kazakhstan women\u2019s rugby team claims silver at Asian Championships in Almaty\" loading=\"eager\"\/><br \/>\nPhoto credit: Akimat of Almaty<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"440\" data-end=\"549\">Japan clinched the championship title ahead of schedule after defeating Kazakhstan 64\u201312 and Hong Kong 72\u201312.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"551\" data-end=\"831\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">As noted by the Ministry, Kazakhstan\u2019s women\u2019s national team delivered a strong performance at the home Asian Championship and once again proved itself to be one of the continent\u2019s leading teams. The achievement also reflects the rapid development of women\u2019s rugby in the country.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"inline-picture\" title=\"Kazakhstan women\u2019s rugby team claims silver at Asian Championships in Almaty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/b489d7e7-fa73-4fac-9c2b-029b6a39aeea.jpeg\" alt=\"Kazakhstan women\u2019s rugby team claims silver at Asian Championships in Almaty\" loading=\"eager\"\/><br \/>\nPhoto credit: Akimat of Almaty<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Qazinform News Agency<\/a> reported that Elena Rybakina <a href=\"https:\/\/qazinform.com\/news\/rybakina-advances-to-internazionali-bnl-ditalia-round-of-16-b7b201\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">had advanced<\/a> to the WTA-1000 Internazionali BNL d\u2019Italia Round of 16.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In the match for second place, the Kazakh team drew 26\u201326 with Hong Kong. Based on additional criteria,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":665218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[567],"tags":[64,63,760,85],"class_list":["post-665217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-rugby","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-rugby","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665217","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=665217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/665218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}