{"id":3274,"date":"2023-10-21T09:17:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-21T08:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dzwatch.net\/?p=3274"},"modified":"2026-09-04T00:53:43","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T23:53:43","slug":"louiza-abouriche-wins-gold-for-algeria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?p=3274","title":{"rendered":"Louiza Abouriche Wins Gold for Algeria"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Algerian wrestler <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-external\" data-dzsl=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Special:Search?search=Louiza%20Abouriche\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Louiza Abouriche<\/a> has clinched the gold medal in the World Martial Arts Karate Championships (men and <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=49\">women<\/a> under 21), currently being held in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia (October 20-21). Abouriche secured her victory on Friday by defeating Kazakhstan&#8217;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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Abouriche, hailing from the city of Freha in the Tizi Ouzou province, reached the final by defeating France&#8217;s Lovatchi Teil with a score of 1-0 in the semifinals. Meanwhile, Smasheva secured her place in the final by overcoming Australia&#8217;s Georgie Lawrence in the other semifinal match in the same weight category.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Celia Wikan, on the other hand, advanced to the final by defeating Cyprus&#8217;s Eirini Konto with a convincing score of 3-0 in the semifinals, only to face defeat in the final against Colombia&#8217;s Sofia Cardenas Paz.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As of now, <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=1\">Algeria<\/a> 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<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">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 <a class=\"dzsl-auto-link dzsl-internal\" data-dzsl=\"internal\" href=\"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/?cat=40\">sports<\/a>, including judo, wrestling, boxing, fencing, taekwondo, and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s Bella Smasheva in the final of the under 55 kg category. In a separate event, her &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","iawp_total_views":11,"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":2,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71210,"href":"https:\/\/dzwatch.dz\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3274\/revisions\/71210"}],"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}]}}