{"id":9577,"date":"2008-08-19T14:05:23","date_gmt":"2008-08-19T14:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2008\/08\/19\/gold-for-taekwondo-champ-ferrari\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T16:35:12","slug":"gold-for-taekwondo-champ-ferrari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2008\/08\/19\/gold-for-taekwondo-champ-ferrari\/","title":{"rendered":"Gold for Taekwondo Champ Ferrari"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3>Youngster bags top spot at Junior Olympic Games<\/h3>\n<div><strong><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"279\" hspace=\"10\" width=\"180\" align=\"right\" vspace=\"3\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/theasiantoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/FerrariFaqiriGold_180x232.jpg\"\/>A YOUNG Karate and Taekwondo star from Preston is helping fly the flag for Great Britain after winning a Gold medal at the Junior Olympic Games in America.<\/strong> <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>17-year-old Ferrari Faqiri headed into the games, held in Detroit, in buoyant mood after stunning performances over the past year made him hot favourite for the coveted gold medal. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>And he didn\u2019t disappoint racing to a well deserved victory in the Middle Weight Taekwondo division.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Alongside his latest achievement Ferrari also holds the Junior World Taekwondo Championship from 2007 along with the British and International Taekwondo Title which were both won earlier this year.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>The Gold medal also bring Ferrari\u2019s medal tally for 2008 to 16.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cTo win the gold at the Junior Olympic games is a fantastic achievement for myself as it\u2019s a main Championships to win before turning towards senior event\u2019s, so I\u2019m very pleased with the victory\u201d, the young champ told The Asian Today.<\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>Ferrari\u2019s father and coach, Hashmat added the victory would spur the youngster for more glory. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<div>\u201cFerrari trained hard for this event and the hard work paid off, now he\u2019s got to finish the year off strong and work hard to prepare himself for the senior\u2019s next year\u201d, he said. <\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Youngster bags top spot at Junior Olympic Games A YOUNG Karate and Taekwondo star from Preston is helping fly the flag for Great Britain after winning a Gold medal at the Junior Olympic Games in America. &#13; 17-year-old Ferrari Faqiri headed into the games, held in Detroit, in buoyant mood after stunning performances over the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sport"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}