{"id":177827,"date":"2024-08-03T09:14:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-03T07:14:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-wins-1st-medal-in-2024-paris-olympics\/"},"modified":"2024-08-03T09:14:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-03T07:14:53","slug":"egypt-wins-1st-medal-in-2024-paris-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/egypt-wins-1st-medal-in-2024-paris-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Egypt Wins 1st Medal in 2024 Paris Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Fencer Mohamed el-Sayed clinched Egypt&#8217;s first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, scooping the bronze in the Men&#8217;s Epee Individual event.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">El-Sayed achieved this remarkable prize by defeating Tibor Andrasfi of Hungary in a closely contested match, finishing with a score of 8-7 in overtime.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">This victory marks a significant milestone for Egypt, as it is the nation&#8217;s second medal in fencing; following Alaa Aboulkassem&#8217;s silver in the London 2012 Olympics.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The 21-year-old started his journey by beating&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202407290467.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Egypt\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/egypt\/\">Egypt<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fencer Mohamed el-Sayed clinched Egypt&#8217;s first medal at the 2024 Paris Olympics, scooping the bronze in the Men&#8217;s Epee Individual event. El-Sayed achieved this remarkable prize by defeating Tibor Andrasfi of Hungary in a closely contested match, finishing with a score of 8-7 in overtime. This victory marks a significant milestone for Egypt, as it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":177828,"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":[338],"tags":[12504,258,256,4697,415,12337,257,12022,15620,254,6552],"class_list":["post-177827","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-1st","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-medal","tag-news","tag-olympics","tag-paris","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"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\/177827","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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177827"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177827\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177828"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177827"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177827"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177827"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}