{"id":238931,"date":"2025-10-25T09:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238931\/"},"modified":"2025-10-25T09:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-25T09:38:09","slug":"irans-mma-athletes-claim-3-gold-medals-at-asian-youth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/238931\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran&#8217;s MMA Athletes Claim 3 Gold Medals at Asian Youth Games &#8211;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WANA (Oct 25) \u2013 Iranian mixed martial arts (MMA) athletes Tiam Dehpahlevan, Amir Mohammad Hatamian, and Ilya Vahedi secured <a href=\"https:\/\/wanaen.com\/iran-wins-three-gold-at-asian-youth-games-through-taekwondo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">gold medals<\/a> at the Asian Youth Games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Tiam Dehpahlevan, representing Iran in the 60kg women\u2019s category, faced Mongolia\u2019s Erdene Bat in the final on Saturday at 10:20 a.m. (Bahrain time). Dehpahlevan won in two rounds, earning Iran\u2019s first-ever gold medal in women\u2019s MMA at the youth games.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In the 60kg men\u2019s category, Amir Mohammad Hatamian defeated Ratcliff of the Philippines in the final after two rounds, claiming gold for Iran.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Ilya Vahedi, competing in the 70kg men\u2019s category, faced Tajikistan\u2019s Omarjani in the final and emerged victorious in two rounds, securing another gold medal for the Iranian team.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The previous day, Kamand Karamzad, competing in the 50-kilogram traditional MMA style, succeeded in winning a bronze medal at the Asian Youth Championships in Bahrain by defeating strong opponents.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>On the third day of the Asian Youth Games in Bahrain, Iranian athletes are competing in 10 sports disciplines, including golf, taekwondo, futsal, 3\u00d73 basketball, Muay Thai, mixed martial arts, e-sports, beach volleyball, athletics, and boxing.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42760\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42760\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns=\" http:=\"\" alt=\"Iranian MMA Athletes Claim Three Gold Medals at Asian Youth Games\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" data-lazy- data-lazy- data-lazy-src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/WANA-Iranian-MMA-Athletes-2.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-42760\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Iranian MMA Athletes Claim Three Gold Medals at Asian Youth Games. Social media\/ WANA News Agency<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WANA (Oct 25) \u2013 Iranian mixed martial arts (MMA) athletes Tiam Dehpahlevan, Amir Mohammad Hatamian, and Ilya Vahedi&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":238932,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[444],"tags":[109318,49,48,641,5897,112641,638,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-238931","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mma","8":"tag-asian-youth-games","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fighting","12":"tag-iran","13":"tag-mixed-martial-arts-mma","14":"tag-mma","15":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238931","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=238931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238931\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}