{"id":100429,"date":"2025-08-27T08:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100429\/"},"modified":"2025-08-27T08:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-08-27T08:54:12","slug":"two-afghan-boxers-reach-semifinals-at-international-tournament-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/100429\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Afghan boxers reach semifinals at international tournament in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ferdaws Najibi and Mujtaba Haidari, members of Afghanistan\u2019s national boxing team, reached the semifinals at the Belt and Road Boxing Tournament in Urumqi, where competitors from 20 countries are participating, the national boxing federation said Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p>Najibi defeated a Chinese opponent in the 80-kilogram youth category, while Haidari advanced in the 50-kilogram youth category following what the federation described as an impressive performance.<\/p>\n<p>Other Afghan boxers were eliminated in earlier rounds. They included:<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Omid Kohistani (60 kg, senior) vs. China<\/p>\n<p>Ebadullah al-Rahman Ibrahimi (80 kg, senior) vs. China<\/p>\n<p>Sohrab Zamani (60 kg, junior) vs. Kyrgyzstan<\/p>\n<p>Farhad Salgi (54 kg, junior) vs. India<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Zaki Habibi (46 kg, junior) vs. India<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad Tamim Shaheer (66 kg, junior) vs. China<\/p>\n<p>Another Afghan boxer, Tabesh Siddiqi, is scheduled to compete in the 75-kilogram junior category against an Indian opponent, according to the federation.<\/p>\n<p>This is the third edition of the Belt and Road Boxing Tournament, hosted by China. More than 400 boxers, coaches and officials from 20 countries \u2014 including Afghanistan, China, Cuba, Kazakhstan, India and South Korea \u2014 are taking part.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ferdaws Najibi and Mujtaba Haidari, members of Afghanistan\u2019s national boxing team, reached the semifinals at the Belt and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100430,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[447],"tags":[703,49,48,82],"class_list":["post-100429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boxing","tag-boxing","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}