{"id":240377,"date":"2026-08-05T07:48:34","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:48:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-boxers-fly-the-flag-in-glasgow\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T07:48:34","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T05:48:34","slug":"namibia-boxers-fly-the-flag-in-glasgow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/namibia\/namibia-boxers-fly-the-flag-in-glasgow\/","title":{"rendered":"Namibia: Boxers Fly the Flag in Glasgow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\"><em>Namibia completed their 2026 Commonwealth Games campaign with a total of one silver and two bronze medals which were all won by their boxers.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">By yesterday afternoon that put them in 28th place overall out of 74 competing nations and seventh overall amongst the 21 African nations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">That was a slight improvement on the 2022 team that won four bronze medals to come 39th overall out of 72 nations, and compared favourably with Namibia&#8217;s previous Commonwealth Games excursions since their debut in&#8230;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202608050002.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Namibia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/namibia\/\">Namibia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Namibia completed their 2026 Commonwealth Games campaign with a total of one silver and two bronze medals which were all won by their boxers. By yesterday afternoon that put them in 28th place overall out of 74 competing nations and seventh overall amongst the 21 African nations. That was a slight improvement on the 2022 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":188473,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[723],"tags":[258,256,8781,10071,10686,24285,4706,724,257,254],"class_list":["post-240377","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-namibia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-boxers","tag-flag","tag-fly","tag-glasgow","tag-namibia","tag-namibia-news","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240377","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=240377"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240377\/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=240377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}