{"id":113089,"date":"2026-01-28T15:18:22","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:18:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/?p=113089"},"modified":"2026-01-28T15:18:22","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T09:18:22","slug":"irans-judoka-crowned-at-casablanca-african-open-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/2026\/01\/28\/irans-judoka-crowned-at-casablanca-african-open-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"Iran\u2019s Judoka Crowned at Casablanca African Open 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><div class=\"pt-1 mt-3\">\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">Iran\u2019s Judoka Elyas Parhizgar grabbed the gold medal in the 81kg weight category in Casablanca African Open 2026 held in Morocco.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"n-gzz0fc mt-3\">\n<div class=\"w-full grid grid-cols-2 gap-1\">\n<div class=\"w-full grow relative flex items-stretch relative max-h-489px col-span-2\">\n<div class=\"absolute inset-0 [contain:strict]\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"grid gap-y-1px mt-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pt-1 mt-3\">\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">Parhizgar overpowered Konin Junior Emmanuel Kossan from C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and then Ivan Ferreira from Argentina. He also defeated Siem Van Damme from the Netherlands to advance to the quarterfinals and then defeated Mustafa Habib from Bosnia and Herzegovina to reach the semifinals.<\/span><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">In the semifinals, Parhizgar achieved a valuable victory over Olivier Gagnon from Canada to advance to the final. After defeating Antonio Candreio, he secured the gold medal.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid gap-y-1px mt-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pt-1 mt-3\">\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">Casablanca African Open 2026 was held in Morocco, with the participation of representatives from 42 countries, on Saturday. Iran\u2019s national team, led by Rashad Mammadov, participated in the event with five judokas.<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"grid gap-y-1px mt-3\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"pt-1 mt-3\">\n<div class=\"n-c4q897 prosed\"><span class=\"auto-dir-block\" dir=\"ltr\">Amir Hossein Valizadeh in 73kg weight category was defeated by Felix from Canada.<\/span><\/div>\n<div>Fars News<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iran\u2019s Judoka Elyas Parhizgar grabbed the gold medal in the 81kg weight category in Casablanca African Open 2026 held in Morocco. Parhizgar overpowered Konin Junior Emmanuel Kossan from C\u00f4te d&#8217;Ivoire and then Ivan Ferreira from Argentina. He also defeated Siem Van Damme from the Netherlands to advance to the quarterfinals and then defeated Mustafa Habib &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/2026\/01\/28\/irans-judoka-crowned-at-casablanca-african-open-2026\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Iran\u2019s Judoka Crowned at Casablanca African Open 2026<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":113090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,5,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-6","category-sports"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Iran\u2019s Judoka Crowned at Casablanca African Open 2026 - Iran Mirror<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.iranmirrorbd.com\/en\/2026\/01\/28\/irans-judoka-crowned-at-casablanca-african-open-2026\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Iran\u2019s Judoka Crowned at Casablanca African Open 2026 - Iran Mirror\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Iran\u2019s Judoka Elyas Parhizgar grabbed the gold medal in the 81kg weight category in Casablanca African Open 2026 held in Morocco. 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