{"id":82710,"date":"2016-08-11T06:30:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T06:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/lib\/female-arab-weightlifter-creates-history-at-rio\/"},"modified":"2016-08-11T06:30:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T06:30:48","slug":"female-arab-weightlifter-creates-history-at-rio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/female-arab-weightlifter-creates-history-at-rio\/","title":{"rendered":"Female Arab weightlifter creates history at Rio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/8 August\/11 Aug\/Rio games (4).jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (SW): Teenager Sara Ahmed earned Egypt its first medal of Rio 2016 to become the first Egyptian woman to win a medal during the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>At just 18, Ahmed lifted a combined weight of 255kg to finish third behind gold medalist Xiang Yanmei of China and silver medallist Zhazira Zhapparkul of Kazakhstan. Prior to Ahmed and Abdelrahman&rsquo;s medals, Egypt&rsquo;s last weighting medal had come in 1948. The country used to be a powerhouse in weightlifting with its men winning a number of medals at the 1936 and 1948 Games.<\/p>\n<p>Another notable feature player of the day was Kuwaiti Fehaid Aldeehani who defeated Italy&rsquo;s Marco Innocenti in the men&rsquo;s double trap match on Wednesday. He became the first member of the Independent Olympic Athletes team to win gold in Olympic history.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"422\" src=\"\/Uploads\/2016\/2016 Online\/8 August\/11 Aug\/fehaid-aldeehani_reuters-m.jpg\" width=\"759\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Kuwait has been banned from international competition by the International Olympic Committee since October for its government legislation allowing interference in national sport federations. A Swiss court denied Kuwait&rsquo;s appeal of the ban before the Games. Thus, Aldeehani was competing under the IOC flag, which flew above his gold medal position on the podium after Wednesday&rsquo;s event. The Olympic anthem, rather than the Kuwaiti national anthem, was played during the medal ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the fifth day, the US stands on top of the medal list with a total of 32 medals that include 11 gold, followed by China with a total of 23 medals including 10 gold while Japan stands third with a total of 18 medals including 6 gold.<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>RIO DE JANEIRO (SW): Teenager Sara Ahmed earned Egypt its first medal of Rio 2016 to become the first Egyptian woman to win a medal during the Olympics<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":82711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-82710","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82710","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}