{"id":38710,"date":"2026-09-27T17:58:03","date_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:28:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iranian-runner-zahra-zarei-aims-to-compete-at-olympics\/"},"modified":"2026-09-27T17:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-09-27T14:28:03","slug":"iranian-runner-zahra-zarei-aims-to-compete-at-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/iranian-runner-zahra-zarei-aims-to-compete-at-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Iranian runner Zahra Zarei aims to compete at Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/6193207.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN &#8211; Iranian national team female athlete Zahra Zarei says her goal is to compete at the Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>She won a silver medal in the 400 meters at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I feel really good and happy right now. I am proud to have won this medal for my country, and I will try to improve my performance in future,&#8221; Zarei said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking about her plans for the future and competing at the Olympics, she said: &#8220;I have set my goal on being at the Olympics from now on, and I will try to get better day by day and to earn my place at the Olympics.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Zarei also commented on her rival Bahrain\u2019s Salwa Naser, who snatched the gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;She is originally of African descent, and this has made competition somewhat harder for Asian runners. She is a world champion, and Bahrain has granted this athlete citizenship. As we saw here, most Bahraini runners are of African descent.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I dedicate my medal to the people of my country, and I hope this medal has made them happy,\u201d the 400-meter silver medalist concluded.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/530483\/Iranian-runner-Zahra-Zarei-aims-to-compete-at-Olympics\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN &#8211; Iranian national team female athlete Zahra Zarei says her goal is to compete at the Olympics. She won a silver medal in the 400 meters at the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games on Saturday. &#8220;I feel really good and happy right now. I am proud to have won this medal for my country, and &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38711,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[56],"class_list":["post-38710","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\/38710","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=38710"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38710\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38711"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38710"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38710"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38710"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}