{"id":235492,"date":"2026-06-06T05:13:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-fencing-angolan-luis-macedo-wins-bronze-at-african-championship\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:13:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:13:45","slug":"angola-fencing-angolan-luis-macedo-wins-bronze-at-african-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-fencing-angolan-luis-macedo-wins-bronze-at-african-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola: Fencing &#8211; Angolan Lu\u00eds Macedo Wins Bronze At African Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Luanda \u2014 Angolan athlete Lu\u00eds Macedo won the bronze medal in the foil event at the African Senior Fencing Championship, which has been taking place in Abidjan, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, since last Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">According to a press release sent to ANGOP on Thursday, the fencer demonstrated a high level of technical skill, determination, and competitive spirit throughout the competition, overcoming high-quality opponents to reach the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Currently ranked 64th with 24,750 points in the International&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606050524.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>Luanda \u2014 Angolan athlete Lu\u00eds Macedo won the bronze medal in the foil event at the African Senior Fencing Championship, which has been taking place in Abidjan, C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire, since last Monday. According to a press release sent to ANGOP on Thursday, the fencer demonstrated a high level of technical skill, determination, and competitive spirit [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235493,"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":[258,256,4380,3941,4263,6556,6632,6843,19422,35145,54546,257,254,6552],"class_list":["post-235492","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-angolan","tag-bronze","tag-championship","tag-fencing","tag-luis","tag-macedo","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wins"],"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\/235492","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=235492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}