{"id":9141,"date":"2024-11-29T15:07:52","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/faraji-makes-history-at-2024-ittf-world-youth-championships\/"},"modified":"2024-11-29T15:07:52","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T11:37:52","slug":"faraji-makes-history-at-2024-ittf-world-youth-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/faraji-makes-history-at-2024-ittf-world-youth-championships\/","title":{"rendered":"Faraji makes history at 2024 ITTF World Youth Championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/en.hamsonews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/5267356.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"item-text\">\n<p class=\"summary\">TEHRAN \u2013 Benyamin Faraji of Iran made history on Friday at the ITTF World Youth Championships 2024, winning a bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">This is the first medal in history of Iran in the youth level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Faraji failed to advance to final after losing to Chinese player Li Hechen 4-2 (11-6, 4-11, 11-13, 10-12, 12-10, 4-11) at Helsingborg Arena.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Faraji had defeated Adam Wallin from Sweden, Shunto Iwaida of Japan and Lin Chin-Ting from Chinese Taipei in his previous matches.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">The competition is being held in Helsingborg, Sweden from Nov. 22 to 29.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Last month, the 14-year-old prodigy stunned the table tennis world by defeating world No. 1 Wang Chuqin at the 2024 Asian Table Tennis Championships. Faraji, ranked 209 places below Chuqin, secured a thrilling 3-2 victory (11-8, 3-11, 9-11, 13-11, 11-9) against his Chinese rival.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:justify\">Despite this special triumph, Faraji remained remarkably grounded. \u201cWinning against the world number one was unbelievable for me, but I believed in myself. My dream is to secure a medal in the Olympic Games,\u201d he reflects.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tehrantimes.com\/news\/506863\/Faraji-makes-history-at-2024-ITTF-World-Youth-Championships\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TEHRAN \u2013 Benyamin Faraji of Iran made history on Friday at the ITTF World Youth Championships 2024, winning a bronze medal. This is the first medal in history of Iran in the youth level. Faraji failed to advance to final after losing to Chinese player Li Hechen 4-2 (11-6, 4-11, 11-13, 10-12, 12-10, 4-11) at &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":9142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2614,56,2616,2615],"class_list":["post-9141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-benyamin-faraji","tag-sports","tag-sweden","tag-table-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141","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=9141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hamsonews.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}