{"id":897604,"date":"2026-09-19T10:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897604\/"},"modified":"2026-09-19T10:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T10:02:10","slug":"syria-gains-gold-medal-at-mixed-martial-arts-world-cup-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/897604\/","title":{"rendered":"Syria gains gold medal at Mixed Martial Arts World Cup in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Luanda, Sept. 19 (SANA) Syrian mixed martial arts national team athlete Hamza al-Hajj Ali won the <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/tag\/gold-medal\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"22572\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">gold medal <\/a>at the Mixed Martial Arts <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/tag\/world-cup\/\" data-type=\"post_tag\" data-id=\"19856\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">World Cup<\/a> held in the Angolan capital, Luanda.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>According to the Ministry of Sports and Youth, which announced the achievement on its official Facebook page on Friday, al-Hajj Ali claimed gold in the youth middleweight category after defeating Angolan fighter Kalimba Kitoko in the final, ending the bout in the third round.<br \/>\u00a0<br \/>The tournament is organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/sana.sy\/en\/sport\/2338687\/\" data-type=\"post\" data-id=\"2338687\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">International Mixed Martial Arts Federation<\/a> (IMMAF), with the participation of national teams from 19 countries, and will continue until September 20.<\/p>\n<p>I.Z\/MZ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Luanda, Sept. 19 (SANA) Syrian mixed martial arts national team athlete Hamza al-Hajj Ali won the gold medal&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897605,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[570],"tags":[64,63,786,785,85],"class_list":["post-897604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mma","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-fighting","tag-mma","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897604","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=897604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897604\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}