{"id":839660,"date":"2026-08-02T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839660\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T11:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T11:06:08","slug":"wheelchair-basketball-set-for-international-tournament-in-turkey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839660\/","title":{"rendered":"Wheelchair basketball set for international tournament in Turkey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; Iran&#8217;s national wheelchair basketball team will compete in an international tournament in Turkey as part of their preparations for the upcoming Wheelchair Basketball World Championship.<\/p>\n<p>The Iranian squad secured their place at the World Championship after an outstanding performance at the final qualification tournament held in Thailand last June.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Iran topped Group A with three consecutive victories over Senegal, Brazil, and Poland to book their ticket to the global event.<\/p>\n<p>As the team intensify their preparations for the World Championship, they have accepted an invitation from the Turkish Basketball Federation to participate in a high-level international tournament in Istanbul.<\/p>\n<p>The tournament will feature four World Championship-bound teams, including hosts Turkey, Iran, the Netherlands, and Poland, providing valuable competitive experience ahead of the sport&#8217;s biggest event.<\/p>\n<p>The international tournament is scheduled to take place in Istanbul from Aug. 20 to 25, offering participating teams a final opportunity to fine-tune their preparations before the World Championship tips off.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TEHRAN &#8211; Iran&#8217;s national wheelchair basketball team will compete in an international tournament in Turkey as part of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,85],"class_list":["post-839660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839660","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=839660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}