{"id":160766,"date":"2026-01-30T23:07:44","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=160766"},"modified":"2026-01-30T23:07:44","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T19:37:44","slug":"saina-soltanipour-finishes-runner-up-at-yazd-karate-championships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/?p=160766","title":{"rendered":"Saina Soltanipour finishes runner-up at Yazd Karate championships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Saina Soltanipour, a Zoroastrian athlete, earned second place in the national Hong Kyokushin karate kumite championships held in Yazd.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The national-level competitions took place with the participation of 700 karate athletes. In these championships, Saina Soltanipour, daughter of Mehri Pourbehmardian and Afshin Soltanipour, secured the runner-up position.<\/p>\n<p>The 7th round of the Hong Kyokushin Iran Championships in the women\u2019s division was held on Thursday, 27 Azar 1404 (December 18, 2025), at Shahid Sadooghi Hall in Yazd.<\/p>\n<p>Saina Soltanipour\u2019s athletic background includes winning second place in kata and third place in kumite at the sixth National Kyokushin Karate Championships in Kerman, third place in the under-55 kg category at the National Shin Razm Zolfaghar Karate Championships in Isfahan, and a gold medal at the Yazd Provincial Women\u2019s Kyokushin Kai Karate Championships.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saina Soltanipour, a Zoroastrian athlete, earned second place in the national Hong Kyokushin karate kumite championships held in Yazd. The national-level competitions took place with the participation of 700 karate athletes. In these championships, Saina Soltanipour, daughter of Mehri Pourbehmardian and Afshin Soltanipour, secured the runner-up position. The 7th round of the Hong Kyokushin Iran [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":160768,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[740,1442],"class_list":["post-160766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-zoroastrians","tag-saina-soltanipour","tag-yazd-karate-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=160766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/160768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=160766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=160766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/en.amordadnews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=160766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}