Algerian wrestler Louiza Abouriche has clinched the gold medal in the World Martial Arts Karate Championships (men and women under 21), currently being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (October 20-21). Abouriche secured her victory on Friday by defeating Kazakhstan’s Bella Smasheva in the final of the under 55 kg category. In a separate event, her compatriot Celia Wikan (50 kg) won the silver medal after losing in the final to Colombian athlete Sofia Cardenas Paz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Abouriche, hailing from the city of Freha in the Tizi Ouzou province, reached the final by defeating France’s Lovatchi Teil with a score of 1-0 in the semifinals. Meanwhile, Smasheva secured her place in the final by overcoming Australia’s Georgie Lawrence in the other semifinal match in the same weight category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Celia Wikan, on the other hand, advanced to the final by defeating Cyprus’s Eirini Konto with a convincing score of 3-0 in the semifinals, only to face defeat in the final against Colombia’s Sofia Cardenas Paz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
As of now, Algeria has won two medals in these World Martial Arts Championships, with the hope of a third and final one as Khadija Glama competes later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
A total of 96 wrestlers from 42 different countries are participating in the karate competition at the World Martial Arts Championships. This event is a part of the larger World Martial Arts Games, the largest multi-discipline sporting event with over 1,500 athletes from more than 120 countries competing in 15 different sports, including judo, wrestling, boxing, fencing, taekwondo, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Algerian wrestler Louiza Abouriche has clinched the gold medal in the World Martial Arts Karate Championships (men and women under 21), currently being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (October 20-21). Abouriche secured her victory on Friday by defeating Kazakhstan’s Bella Smasheva in the final of the under 55 kg category. In a separate event, her …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"rank_math_lock_modified_date":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3274"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3276,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/3276"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}