{"id":217981,"date":"2025-12-24T22:25:57","date_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:25:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/ghana-angola-team-ghana-shines-at-2025-african-youth-games-in-angola\/"},"modified":"2025-12-24T22:25:57","modified_gmt":"2025-12-24T20:25:57","slug":"ghana-angola-team-ghana-shines-at-2025-african-youth-games-in-angola","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/ghana-angola-team-ghana-shines-at-2025-african-youth-games-in-angola\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\/Angola: Team Ghana Shines At 2025 African Youth Games in Angola"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"52\"><em>Ghana&#8217;s youth athletes<\/em> returned home triumphantly after a remarkable performance at the <em>2025 African Youth Games<\/em> held in Luanda, Angola. Competing across 12 sporting disciplines, the team secured a total of <em>21 medals<\/em>: three gold, six silver, and 12 bronze, showcasing Ghana&#8217;s growing depth in youth sports and commitment to talent development.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"9\">The standout performances came in <strong>badminton, boxing, and athletics<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Badminton:<\/strong> Ghana clinched Gold in Boys Doubles and Girls Doubles, Silver in Mixed&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512230662.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana&#8217;s youth athletes returned home triumphantly after a remarkable performance at the 2025 African Youth Games held in Luanda, Angola. Competing across 12 sporting disciplines, the team secured a total of 21 medals: three gold, six silver, and 12 bronze, showcasing Ghana&#8217;s growing depth in youth sports and commitment to talent development. The standout performances [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":217982,"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":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4380,3941,4263,6731,4508,45031,257,9249,254,7142,6276],"class_list":["post-217981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-games","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaangola","tag-news","tag-shines","tag-south-africa-today","tag-team","tag-youth"],"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\/217981","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}