{"id":47933,"date":"2023-02-06T16:08:40","date_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:08:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/?p=47933"},"modified":"2023-02-06T16:08:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-06T14:08:40","slug":"team-south-africa-takes-11-athletes-to-immaf-world-championship-in-serbia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/more-sport\/team-south-africa-takes-11-athletes-to-immaf-world-championship-in-serbia\/","title":{"rendered":"Team South Africa takes 11 athletes to IMMAF World Championship, in Serbia"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><strong>Over 520 Athletes from 62 Nations<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>11 \u2013 18 FEBRUARY 2023<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>NOVI BEOGRAD, SERBIA<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>SENIOR &amp; JUNIOR TOURNAMENTS<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>WATCH LIVE AT\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/immaf.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>IMMAF.TV<\/strong><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation today announced the <a href=\"https:\/\/immaf.smoothcomp.com\/en\/event\/9749\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">provisional list of national teams and athletes<\/a> competing in the 2022 IMMAF World Championships, which is set to take place at the \u0160tark Arena, in Novi Beograd (Belgrade), Serbia from 11 to 17 February.<\/p>\n<p>Over 520 athletes from 62 countries are expected to compete in Serbia, making the\u00a0<strong>2022 IMMAF World Championships<\/strong>\u00a0the biggest event in the international governing body\u2019s history. A number of champions from the 2022 season are set to return including: Sabrina de Sousa (BRN), Ramazan Gitinov (BRN), Magdalena Czaban (POL), Fergus Jenkins (NZL), Otabek Rajabov (TJK) and Veja Hinda (NAM).<\/p>\n<p><strong>Team South Africa will be competing with 11 athletes in the team, 8 in the Senior division and 3 in the Junior.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Senior competition will feature six weight divisions for female athletes, from Atomweight to Lightweight, and ten for male athletes, from Strawweight to Super Heavyweight. The World Championships will be conducted per the latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/immaf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/IMMAF-RulesDocument-as-of-Jan-2021.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMMAF Amateur rules<\/a>. All six days of action will be available to stream on IMMAF\u2019s OTT platform,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/immaf.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">IMMAF.TV<\/a>, for fans all over the World.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ap-custom-wrapper\"><\/div><!--ap-custom-wrapper-->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 520 Athletes from 62 Nations 11 \u2013 18 FEBRUARY 2023 NOVI BEOGRAD, SERBIA SENIOR &amp; JUNIOR TOURNAMENTS WATCH LIVE AT\u00a0IMMAF.TV &nbsp; The International Mixed Martial Arts Federation today announced the provisional list of national teams and athletes competing in the 2022 IMMAF World Championships, which is set to take place at the \u0160tark Arena, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":58746,"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":[3],"tags":[9301,4129],"class_list":["post-47933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-more-sport","tag-immaf","tag-mixed-martial-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}