{"id":899057,"date":"2026-09-20T16:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899057\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T16:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T16:00:11","slug":"iran-basketball-win-bronze-at-2026-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/899057\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran basketball win bronze at 2026 Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Matin Aghajanpour led Iran with 21 points, while China\u2019s Zhenglin Pang finished with a game-high 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Iran delegation\u2019s first medal in the Games.<\/p>\n<p>Iran have yet to win a gold medal in men\u2019s basketball at the Asian Games. Team Melli won back-to-back silver medals in 2014 and 2018 and have also claimed three bronze medals, in 1951, 2006 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The gold-medal game will be contested between Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s 5-on-5 basketball tournament at the 2026 Asian Games is being held in Kita-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, from September 10 to 20.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Matin Aghajanpour led Iran with 21 points, while China\u2019s Zhenglin Pang finished with a game-high 22 points. It\u2019s&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":899058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[71180,64,63,726,5575,941,85],"class_list":["post-899057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-basketball","tag-2026-asian-games","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-basketball","tag-iran","tag-japan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899057","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=899057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/899057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/899058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=899057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=899057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=899057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}