{"id":436612,"date":"2026-09-24T17:29:37","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/?p=436612"},"modified":"2026-09-24T17:29:38","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T11:44:38","slug":"asian-games-nepal-enters-womens-kabaddi-semifinals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/2026\/09\/24\/436612.html","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games: Nepal enters women\u2019s kabaddi semifinals"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu: <\/strong>Nepal has entered the semifinals of the women\u2019s kabaddi competition at the ongoing 20th Asian Games in Japan after defeating Sri Lanka 34-25.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"500\" src=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Kabaddi-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-436613\" srcset=\"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Kabaddi-1.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Kabaddi-1-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/09\/Kabaddi-1-768x384.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal led 19-13 at half-time and secured a medal with the win. Nepal had previously won bronze at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal had earlier defeated Thailand but lost to Chinese Taipei in Group B. Chinese Taipei has also advanced to the semifinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In men\u2019s kabaddi, Nepal beat Malaysia 73-52 in their final group-stage match. Nepal led 37-21 at half-time. The win came as a consolation after Nepal\u2019s three successive defeats had already knocked the men\u2019s team out of the tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nepal led 19-13 at half-time and secured a medal with the win. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":436613,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,3,74,5],"tags":[],"reporter":[],"class_list":["post-436612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-en-cover","category-english","category-sports","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436612"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/48"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":436614,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436612\/revisions\/436614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436612"},{"taxonomy":"reporter","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radionepalonline.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reporter?post=436612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}