{"id":14332,"date":"2025-01-01T12:52:05","date_gmt":"2025-01-01T09:22:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/taekwondo-captain-mardani-announces-retirement\/"},"modified":"2025-01-01T12:52:05","modified_gmt":"2025-01-01T09:22:05","slug":"taekwondo-captain-mardani-announces-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/taekwondo-captain-mardani-announces-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Taekwondo captain Mardani announces retirement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/5313421.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Iran national taekwondo team captain Sajad Mardani announced the end of his professional career at the age of 36.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Mardani won the silver medal in the men&#8217;s heavyweight class at the 2013 World Taekwondo Championships held in Puebla, Mexico. He also won a bronze medal at 2022 Guadalajara as well as a gold medal in 2021 Asian Championships in Beirut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Mardani has also been on the world&#8217;s top 5 (+ 80 kg) taekwondo weights since 2013, always and annually.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/508163\/Taekwondo-captain-Mardani-announces-retirement\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Iran national taekwondo team captain Sajad Mardani announced the end of his professional career at the age of 36. Mardani won the silver medal in the men&#8217;s heavyweight class at the 2013 World Taekwondo Championships held in Puebla, Mexico. He also won a bronze medal at 2022 Guadalajara as well as a gold &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14333,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-14332","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\/14332","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=14332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14332\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14333"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}