{"id":14208,"date":"2025-11-17T01:59:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:29:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=14208"},"modified":"2025-11-17T01:59:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-16T21:29:16","slug":"mohsen-rezai-brings-taekwondo-silver-to-afghanistan-despite-illness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/mohsen-rezai-brings-taekwondo-silver-to-afghanistan-despite-illness\/","title":{"rendered":"Mohsen Rezai Brings Taekwondo Silver to Afghanistan Despite Illness."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mohsen Rezai Brings Taekwondo Silver to Afghanistan Despite Illness.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Mohsen Rezai, the captain of Afghanistan’s national taekwondo team, won a silver medal at the Islamic Solidarity Games despite being ill. He was defeated 2-1 by Iranian taekwondo athlete Ali-Asghar Moradian in the final match.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The final took place on Sunday evening, November 16, 2025, in the under-60 kg category in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Rezai\u2019s silver medal is the first-ever silver for Afghanistan in the history of the Islamic Solidarity Games. Despite his illness and poor physical condition during the competition, he delivered an impressive performance.<\/strong><\/p>\n

To reach the final, Rezai defeated competitors from Saudi Arabia, Uzbekistan, and Azerbaijan. Earlier, Yousuf Jahangir, another Afghan athlete in Muay Thai, made history by winning a gold medal in the same games, bringing further pride to the country\u2019s sports achievements.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mohsen Rezai Brings Taekwondo Silver to Afghanistan Despite Illness. Mohsen Rezai, the captain of Afghanistan’s national taekwondo team, won a silver medal at the Islamic Solidarity Games despite being ill. He was defeated 2-1 by Iranian taekwondo athlete Ali-Asghar Moradian in the final match. The final took place on Sunday evening, November 16, 2025, in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":14215,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14208","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14208","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14219,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14208\/revisions\/14219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}