{"id":29643,"date":"2025-03-03T12:22:35","date_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:52:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/iran-finish-fourth-at-2025-asian-water-polo-championship\/"},"modified":"2025-03-03T12:22:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T08:52:35","slug":"iran-finish-fourth-at-2025-asian-water-polo-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-finish-fourth-at-2025-asian-water-polo-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran finish fourth at 2025 Asian Water Polo Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/5297178.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; The 2025 Asian Water Polo Championship wrapped up in Zhaoqing, China, where Iran came fourth in the competition. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Team Melli lost to Kazakhstan 16-14 in bronze medal match and finished in fourth place.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The match ended in a 12-12 draw and Kazakhstan defeated Iran 4-2 on penalties.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Japan were crowned champions, beating China 14-11 in the final.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Throughout the tournament, Iran achieved victories over South Korea (19-6), Chinese Taipei (37-5), Uzbekistan (33-9), and Singapore (14-7), but suffered a loss to Japan (16-12), China (13-10) and Kazakhstan (16-14).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The competition is being held in Zhaoqing, China, from Feb. 25 to March 2.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The top two teams, Japan and China, have qualified for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships, scheduled to take place in Singapore from July 11 to August 3.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/510445\/Iran-finish-fourth-at-2025-Asian-Water-Polo-Championship\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; The 2025 Asian Water Polo Championship wrapped up in Zhaoqing, China, where Iran came fourth in the competition. Team Melli lost to Kazakhstan 16-14 in bronze medal match and finished in fourth place. The match ended in a 12-12 draw and Kazakhstan defeated Iran 4-2 on penalties. Japan were crowned champions, beating China &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":28129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-29643","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\/29643","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=29643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29643\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}