{"id":902711,"date":"2026-09-23T16:42:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:42:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902711\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T16:42:21","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T16:42:21","slug":"shafaq-news-asian-games-iraq-competes-in-rowing-boxing-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/902711\/","title":{"rendered":"Shafaq News..Asian Games: Iraq competes in rowing, boxing, athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n                            2026-09-23T14:01:10+00:00<\/p>\n<p>                                    font<\/p>\n<p>                                            Enable Reading Mode<\/p>\n<p>\n                                        A-<br \/>\n                                        A<br \/>\n                                        A+\n                                    <\/p>\n<p>Shafaq<br \/>\nNews- Tokyo<\/p>\n<p>Iraq&#8217;s<br \/>\nathletes face a busy day at the Asian Games in Aichi and Nagoya, Japan, on<br \/>\nThursday, with competition in rowing, boxing and athletics.<\/p>\n<p>In<br \/>\nrowing, Mohamed Riyadh Al-Khafaji and Bakr Shihab Ahmed Al Dulaimi compete in<br \/>\nthe men&#8217;s pair final over 2,000 meters at about 4:20 a.m. Baghdad time, as Iraq<br \/>\nbids for a medal.<\/p>\n<p>Boxer<br \/>\nAli Qasim Hamdan Al-Sarray fights India&#8217;s Sumit Kundu in the round of 16 of the<br \/>\n70-kilogram division at 6:00 a.m. Baghdad time, aiming to advance to the<br \/>\nquarterfinals.<\/p>\n<p>Discus<br \/>\nthrower Mustafa Kadhim Dagher closes out Iraq&#8217;s program in the men&#8217;s final at<br \/>\n12:45 p.m. Baghdad time, facing a field of 11 athletes.<\/p>\n<p>Dagher<br \/>\nentered the Games after a training buildup that included a camp in Germany as<br \/>\npart of his preparations for the competition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"2026-09-23T14:01:10+00:00 font Enable Reading Mode A- A A+ Shafaq News- Tokyo Iraq&#8217;s athletes face a busy day at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":902712,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[571],"tags":[470865,5654,64,63,802,14589,1076,941,85],"class_list":["post-902711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-asian-games-iraq-competes-in-rowing","tag-athletics","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-boxing","tag-breaking","tag-iraq","tag-japan","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902711","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=902711"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/902711\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/902712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=902711"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=902711"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=902711"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}