{"id":55073,"date":"2025-07-30T17:21:01","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T17:21:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/rwanda-wins-gold-at-african-school-games\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T16:37:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T16:37:31","slug":"rwanda-wins-gold-at-african-school-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/rwanda-wins-gold-at-african-school-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Rwanda wins gold at African School Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Rwandan side edged Nigeria 12\u201311 in a thrilling final to secure top honours in the competition, which brings together athletes aged 14 to 17 from across the continent. <\/p>\n

Earlier in the tournament, Rwanda had also defeated Nigeria 11\u20139 in the group stage and registered a dominant 20\u201310 win over hosts Algeria.<\/p>\n

This maiden edition of the African School Games kicked off on July 27 and is scheduled to run through August 5, 2025. The multi-sport event has attracted participants from 52 countries, although Burundi and Somalia withdrew.<\/p>\n

Rwanda is competing in two disciplines, 3×3 basketball and athletics, represented by both boys and girls.<\/p>\n

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Rwanda\u2019s girls\u2019 3×3 basketball team claimed the gold medal at the inaugural African School Games currently underway in Algeria.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":2000091777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[75],"byline":[170],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-55073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-homenews","byline-igihe"],"bylines":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"contributors":[{"id":170,"name":"IGIHE","slug":"igihe","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":8}],"featured_image":{"id":2000091777,"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-07-30_at_09.46_14_0fb29c23-29fa2gold.jpg","alt":"","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":0,"height":0,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-07-30_at_09.46_14_0fb29c23-29fa2gold.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-07-30_at_09.46_14_0fb29c23-29fa2gold.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-07-30_at_09.46_14_0fb29c23-29fa2gold.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-07-30_at_09.46_14_0fb29c23-29fa2gold.jpg","width":1,"height":1},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/en-images.igihe.com\/IMG\/logo\/whatsapp_image_2025-07-30_at_09.46_14_0fb29c23-29fa2gold.jpg","width":0,"height":0}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55073","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55073\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000091777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55073"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=55073"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=55073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}