{"id":201779,"date":"2025-07-06T08:24:44","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-african-fencing-championships-nigeria-records-historic-win-as-egypt-dominates-23rd-edition\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T08:24:44","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T06:24:44","slug":"nigeria-african-fencing-championships-nigeria-records-historic-win-as-egypt-dominates-23rd-edition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-african-fencing-championships-nigeria-records-historic-win-as-egypt-dominates-23rd-edition\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: African Fencing Championships &#8211; Nigeria Records Historic Win As Egypt Dominates 23rd Edition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">After a quarterfinal loss to Algeria, the Nigerian team&#8211;comprising Somtochukwu Eribenne, Sara Idongesit, and Adebodunirin Thomas&#8211;rallied to end their campaign on a high note.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"27\">Nigeria&#8217;s women&#8217;s epee team celebrated a historic milestone at the 23rd African Fencing Championships, securing their first-ever win in the competition to finish in the top five.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"14\">The five-day tournament, hosted at Charterhouse, Lagos, concluded with Egypt emerging as the overall<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"8\">champion, amassing the highest number of gold&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506300153.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>After a quarterfinal loss to Algeria, the Nigerian team&#8211;comprising Somtochukwu Eribenne, Sara Idongesit, and Adebodunirin Thomas&#8211;rallied to end their campaign on a high note. Nigeria&#8217;s women&#8217;s epee team celebrated a historic milestone at the 23rd African Fencing Championships, securing their first-ever win in the competition to finish in the top five. The five-day tournament, hosted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":201780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[13206,258,256,4380,7540,13276,11246,4697,415,19422,13203,257,4687,6850,254,6660],"class_list":["post-201779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-23rd","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-championships","tag-dominates","tag-edition","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-fencing","tag-historic","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-records","tag-south-africa-today","tag-win"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/201779","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=201779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201779\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}