{"id":176021,"date":"2024-07-06T18:47:10","date_gmt":"2024-07-06T16:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-wheelchair-boxers-bag-second-place-after-host-poland-at-paralympics\/"},"modified":"2024-07-06T18:47:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-06T16:47:10","slug":"kenyas-wheelchair-boxers-bag-second-place-after-host-poland-at-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyas-wheelchair-boxers-bag-second-place-after-host-poland-at-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya&#8217;s Wheelchair Boxers Bag Second Place After Host Poland At Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>Kenya&#8217;s wheelchair boxing team secured second place in the World Paralympic boxing competition in Poland.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">The team headed by Mary Atieno registered the result after emerging second in three different categories.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">Evans Odhiambo Absalom won gold in Heavyweight category while Emmanuel Yakavi bagged the Lightweight category.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Speaking to the press, Atieno reiterated that the team was able to perform due to support from wellwishers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">&#8220;We are happy that we were able to represent Kenya&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407050521.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 East Africa <a title=\"Kenya\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/east-africa\/kenya\/\">Kenya<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 Kenya&#8217;s wheelchair boxing team secured second place in the World Paralympic boxing competition in Poland. The team headed by Mary Atieno registered the result after emerging second in three different categories. Evans Odhiambo Absalom won gold in Heavyweight category while Emmanuel Yakavi bagged the Lightweight category. Speaking to the press, Atieno reiterated that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":176022,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[250],"tags":[258,256,11468,8781,6937,430,6097,257,33452,8673,21702,254,7677],"class_list":["post-176021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bag","tag-boxers","tag-host","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyas","tag-news","tag-paralympics","tag-place","tag-poland","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wheelchair"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176022"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}