{"id":954892,"date":"2026-11-02T00:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954892\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T00:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T00:02:11","slug":"judoka-mati-anes-wins-canadas-first-medal-of-youth-olympics-in-dakar-senegal-nanaimonewsnow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/954892\/","title":{"rendered":"Judoka Mati Anes wins Canada\u2019s first medal of Youth Olympics in Dakar, Senegal | NanaimoNewsNOW"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/1793577731_95_imageRedirect.jpeg\" class=\"object-fit-cover\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Performers make the olympic rings during the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympics in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Oct. 31, 2026. (AP Photo\/Sylvain Cherkaoui)<\/p>\n<p>By The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\tNov 1, 2026 | 2:15 PM\n\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>DAKAR \u2014 Mati Anes has won Canada\u2019s first medal of the 2026 Youth Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>The product of Anjou, Que., earned silver in judo on the first full day of competition.<\/p>\n<p>Mati lost to Ukraine\u2019s Khazar Heydarov by ippon in the men\u2019s 66-kilogram final.<\/p>\n<p>Argentina\u2019s Thiago Carvallo and Senegal\u2019s Matar Diop each earned bronze in the weight class.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Performers make the olympic rings during the opening ceremony of the Youth Olympics in Dakar, Senegal, Saturday, Oct.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":954893,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[879,49,48,2467,2461,2468,2460,2462,2463,44,2464,2465,2466,82],"class_list":["post-954892","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-canada","tag-breaking-news","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-central-vancouver-island","tag-nanaimo","tag-nanaimo-breaking-news","tag-nanaimo-news","tag-nanaimo-news-now","tag-nanaimonewsnow","tag-news","tag-oceanside","tag-parksville","tag-qualicum","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954892","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=954892"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954892\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954892"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954892"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954892"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}