{"id":216856,"date":"2025-12-16T14:38:49","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:38:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-ayg-nigeria-stuns-egypt-to-claim-mixed-team-table-tennis-gold\/"},"modified":"2025-12-16T14:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:38:49","slug":"nigeria-ayg-nigeria-stuns-egypt-to-claim-mixed-team-table-tennis-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/egypt\/nigeria-ayg-nigeria-stuns-egypt-to-claim-mixed-team-table-tennis-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"Nigeria: AYG &#8211; Nigeria Stuns Egypt to Claim Mixed Team Table Tennis Gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">Nigeria has secured a gold medal in table tennis at the ongoing 4th African Youth Games (AYG) in Angola, triumphing over the continent&#8217;s powerhouse, Egypt, to become champions in the mixed team event late Monday evening.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">The Nigerian mixed team, comprising Matthew Fabunmi and Ojo Favour, delivered a composed and dominant performance in the final, beating Egypt with a convincing 2-0 scoreline.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">This victory not only secured the gold medal but also underscored Nigeria&#8217;s burgeoning strength in youth&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512160278.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>Nigeria has secured a gold medal in table tennis at the ongoing 4th African Youth Games (AYG) in Angola, triumphing over the continent&#8217;s powerhouse, Egypt, to become champions in the mixed team event late Monday evening. The Nigerian mixed team, comprising Matthew Fabunmi and Ojo Favour, delivered a composed and dominant performance in the final, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":216857,"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":[258,256,53152,8667,4697,415,4644,8467,257,4687,254,13901,7838,7142,7678],"class_list":["post-216856","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-egypt","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-ayg","tag-claim","tag-egypt","tag-egypt-news","tag-gold","tag-mixed","tag-news","tag-nigeria","tag-south-africa-today","tag-stuns","tag-table","tag-team","tag-tennis"],"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\/216856","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=216856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216856\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}