{"id":11981,"date":"2024-12-22T11:19:28","date_gmt":"2024-12-22T07:49:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iran-edged-by-china-at-water-polo-world-cup-2025-division-2-bronze-medal-match\/"},"modified":"2024-12-22T11:19:28","modified_gmt":"2024-12-22T07:49:28","slug":"iran-edged-by-china-at-water-polo-world-cup-2025-division-2-bronze-medal-match","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-edged-by-china-at-water-polo-world-cup-2025-division-2-bronze-medal-match\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran edged by China at Water Polo World Cup 2025, Division 2 bronze medal match"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/5298173.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; Iran would have hoped for third position but lost to China 12-11 at the Water Polo World Cup 2025, Division 2 Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Team Melli had defeated South Africa 2-4, Ukraine 16-14 and Portugal 15-11 in their previous matches but failed to qualify for the final, losing to the Netherlands 18-7 in the semifinals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Netherlands closed the tournament with an 11-9 margin over Germany in the final match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Netherlands and Germany qualified for the men&#8217;s Water Polo World Cup 2025\u2014Super Final, joining the six men\u2019s teams that will be eligible through the Division 1 Tournaments.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The FINA 2025 World Aquatics Championships will take place in Singapore from 11 July through 3 Aug. 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The Water Polo World Cup 2025 Division 2 was held in Istanbul, Turkey from December 18 to 21.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/507773\/Iran-edged-by-China-at-Water-Polo-World-Cup-2025-Division-2\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; Iran would have hoped for third position but lost to China 12-11 at the Water Polo World Cup 2025, Division 2 Saturday night. Team Melli had defeated South Africa 2-4, Ukraine 16-14 and Portugal 15-11 in their previous matches but failed to qualify for the final, losing to the Netherlands 18-7 in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-11981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11982"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}