{"id":38584,"date":"2026-09-20T19:23:56","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:53:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-basketball-win-bronze-at-2026-asian-games\/"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:23:56","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T15:53:56","slug":"iran-basketball-win-bronze-at-2026-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iran-basketball-win-bronze-at-2026-asian-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran basketball win bronze at 2026 Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6181207.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div itemprop=\"articleBody\" class=\"item-text\">\n<p>Matin Aghajanpour led Iran with 21 points, while China\u2019s Zhenglin Pang finished with a game-high 22 points.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s Iran delegation\u2019s first medal in the Games.<\/p>\n<p>Iran have yet to win a gold medal in men\u2019s basketball at the Asian Games. Team Melli won back-to-back silver medals in 2014 and 2018 and have also claimed three bronze medals, in 1951, 2006 and 2010.<\/p>\n<p>The gold-medal game will be contested between Japan and South Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The men\u2019s 5-on-5 basketball tournament at the 2026 Asian Games is being held in Kita-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, from September 10 to 20.<\/p>\n<p>MNA<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/en.mehrnews.com\/news\/247921\/Iran-basketball-win-bronze-at-2026-Asian-Games\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matin Aghajanpour led Iran with 21 points, while China\u2019s Zhenglin Pang finished with a game-high 22 points. It\u2019s Iran delegation\u2019s first medal in the Games. Iran have yet to win a gold medal in men\u2019s basketball at the Asian Games. Team Melli won back-to-back silver medals in 2014 and 2018 and have also claimed three &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38585,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38584","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=38584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}