{"id":60023,"date":"2025-01-27T10:56:53","date_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:56:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=60023"},"modified":"2025-01-27T10:56:53","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T10:56:53","slug":"eniola-bolaji-clinches-gold-at-egypt-para-badminton-international-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2025\/01\/27\/eniola-bolaji-clinches-gold-at-egypt-para-badminton-international-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Eniola Bolaji Clinches Gold at Egypt Para Badminton International 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>By Adenike Lawal<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nigeria\u2019s Eniola Bolaji, a Paralympic bronze medalist, secured gold at the Egypt Para Badminton International 2025 on Sunday, capping off an outstanding performance.<\/p>\n<p>In the women\u2019s SL3 final, Bolaji defeated Sweden\u2019s Hillevi Salomonsson 2-0 (21-1, 21-2), showcasing her dominance in the sport.<\/p>\n<p>Bolaji&#8217;s victory in Egypt extends her remarkable winning streak, having won all 10 of her matches in the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>She also remains undefeated in the last 10 international championships, with an impressive 58 wins out of 64 matches.<\/p>\n<p>This victory adds to Bolaji\u2019s list of accolades, including becoming the first African athlete to win a badminton medal at the Paralympic Games in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>As she prepares for future competitions, Bolaji continues to inspire athletes across Africa.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Adenike Lawal Nigeria\u2019s Eniola Bolaji, a Paralympic bronze medalist, secured gold at the Egypt Para Badminton International 2025 on Sunday, capping off an outstanding performance. In the women\u2019s SL3 final, Bolaji defeated Sweden\u2019s Hillevi Salomonsson 2-0 (21-1, 21-2), showcasing her dominance in the sport. Bolaji&#8217;s victory in Egypt extends her remarkable winning streak, having [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":60024,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60023"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60025,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60023\/revisions\/60025"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60024"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}