{"id":61416,"date":"2026-09-20T19:56:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:56:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/athletics\/eritrean-national-athletics-team-wins-gold-and-bronze-medals\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:56:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T17:56:03","slug":"eritrean-national-athletics-team-wins-gold-and-bronze-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/athletics\/eritrean-national-athletics-team-wins-gold-and-bronze-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"Eritrean National Athletics Team Wins Gold and Bronze Medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"press-body-in\">\n                            <span><br \/>\n                                                            ASMARA, Eritrea, September 20, 2026\/APO Group\/ &#8212;<br \/>\n                                                        <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Eritrea\u2019s National Athletics Team won gold and bronze medals at the 2026 World Athletics Championships held in Denmark.<\/p>\n<p>In the 5 km road race held yesterday, 19 September, in Copenhagen, Olympian Dawit Seare and Athlete Saimon Samuel won gold and bronze medals, respectively, for the Eritrean National Team.<\/p>\n<p>Olympian Dawit finished the race in 12 minutes and 56 seconds, followed by a Norwegian athlete. Dawit\u2019s winning time also set a new national record.<\/p>\n<p>It is to be recalled that Olympian Dawit Seare won the gold medal in the 5 km race at the African Athletics Championships held in Accra, Ghana, earlier this year.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/press\/eritrean-national-athletics-team-wins-gold-and-bronze-medals?lang=en\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASMARA, Eritrea, September 20, 2026\/APO Group\/ &#8212; Eritrea\u2019s National Athletics Team won gold and bronze medals at the 2026 World Athletics Championships held in Denmark. In the 5 km road race held yesterday, 19 September, in Copenhagen, Olympian Dawit Seare and Athlete Saimon Samuel won gold and bronze medals, respectively, for the Eritrean National Team. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61417,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/667c943737393dd","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3435],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-athletics"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-newsroom.com\/files\/large\/667c943737393dd","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61416","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=61416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61416\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}