{"id":193199,"date":"2025-03-09T18:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-03-09T16:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyans-eager-to-punch-above-weight-for-glory-at-world-boxing-champs\/"},"modified":"2025-03-09T18:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-03-09T16:38:07","slug":"kenyans-eager-to-punch-above-weight-for-glory-at-world-boxing-champs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/east-africa\/kenya\/kenyans-eager-to-punch-above-weight-for-glory-at-world-boxing-champs\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenyans Eager to Punch Above Weight for Glory At World Boxing Champs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">NAIROBI \u2014 <em>Team Kenya jetted out on Thursday night in time for the Women&#8217;s World Boxing Championships, in Nis, Serbia from March 8-16.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The team of eight pugilists and four officials will be expected to arrive in Eastern Europe in time for the technical meeting and official draw for the global competition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Kenya will be looking to clinch their first ever medal, which has proved elusive since they debuted at the competition in Bridgetown, Barbados in 2012.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"34\">The team are a mix of youth and&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202503070316.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 Team Kenya jetted out on Thursday night in time for the Women&#8217;s World Boxing Championships, in Nis, Serbia from March 8-16. The team of eight pugilists and four officials will be expected to arrive in Eastern Europe in time for the technical meeting and official draw for the global competition. Kenya will be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":193200,"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":[258,256,7385,11203,21036,10804,430,9058,257,351,254,15359,5093],"class_list":["post-193199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-kenya","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boxing","tag-champs","tag-eager","tag-glory","tag-kenya-news","tag-kenyans","tag-news","tag-punch","tag-south-africa-today","tag-weight","tag-world"],"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\/193199","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=193199"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193199\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/193200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}