{"id":23959,"date":"2018-07-22T00:30:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T22:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/algeria\/rugby-7s-african-youth-games-south-africa-takes-the-gold-medal-and-qualifies-for-the-youth-olympic-games\/"},"modified":"2018-07-22T00:30:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T22:30:09","slug":"rugby-7s-african-youth-games-south-africa-takes-the-gold-medal-and-qualifies-for-the-youth-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/algeria\/rugby-7s-african-youth-games-south-africa-takes-the-gold-medal-and-qualifies-for-the-youth-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Rugby 7s &#8211; African Youth Games: South Africa takes the gold medal and qualifies for the Youth Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>South Africa won the victory against Namibia (32-12) during the Rugby 7s mens final held Saturday at the stadium of 5- July (Algiers).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final results:<\/strong><br \/> 1- South Africa<br \/> 2- Namibia<br \/> 3- Mauritius<br \/> 4- Burkina Faso<br \/> 5- Algeria<br \/> 6- Ivory Coast<br \/> 7- Senegal<br \/> 8- Morocco<br \/> 9- Tunisia<br \/> 10- Benin.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Technical results of the last day (Saturday, July 21st):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Semi-finals:<\/strong><br \/> South Africa &#8211; Mauritius 46-0<br \/> Namibia &#8211; Burkina Faso 43-7<\/p>\n<p><strong>Final:<\/strong><br \/> South Africa &#8211; Namibia 32-1<\/p>\n<p>Algeria hosts the 3rd African Youth Games (JAJ-2018) from 18 to 28 July 2018, which will see the participation of some 3,000 athletes from 54 nations, engaged in 30 disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>The African Youth Games is an international multi-sport event held every four years to complement the current All-Africa Games.<\/p>\n<p> <i>Distributed by APO Group on behalf of F\u00e9d\u00e9ration Alg\u00e9rienne de Rugby.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><strong>Media contact: <\/strong>rugby@apo-opa.org<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/rugby-jeux-africains-de-la-jeunesse--lafrique-du-sud-prend-la-medaille-dor-et-se-qualifie-pour-les-jeux-olympiques-de-la-jeunesse-lalgerie-termine-a-la-5eme-place?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Algeria\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/algeria\/\">Algeria<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa won the victory against Namibia (32-12) during the Rugby 7s mens final held Saturday at the stadium of 5- July (Algiers). Final results: 1- South Africa 2- Namibia 3- Mauritius 4- Burkina Faso 5- Algeria 6- Ivory Coast 7- Senegal 8- Morocco 9- Tunisia 10- Benin. Technical results of the last day (Saturday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[655],"tags":[258,256,8139,257,254],"class_list":["post-23959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-algeria","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-algeria-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959","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=23959"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23959\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}