{"id":76076,"date":"2023-04-17T10:30:25","date_gmt":"2023-04-17T05:30:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?p=76076"},"modified":"2023-04-17T02:50:50","modified_gmt":"2023-04-16T21:50:50","slug":"saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/","title":{"rendered":"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI 16 April (Online): The International Fencing Federation has announced that Saudi Arabia has won the bid to host the 2024 World Fencing Championship for juniors and Youth, one of the sporting code\u2019s biggest contests.<\/p>\n<p>The announcement was made at this year\u2019s event in Bulgaria that took place from 1 to 9 April. The decision itself was taken at last November\u2019s IFF general assembly.<\/p>\n<p>Next year\u2019s event will feature over 1,500 male and female athletes representing more than 100 countries, and more than 400 administrative and technical staff, including referees and coaches.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmed Al-Sabban, chairman of the Saudi Fencing Federation\u2019s board of directors, thanked King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman for supporting the bid and sports in general in the Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Sabban also thanked Prince Abdulaziz bin Turki Al-Faisal, the Kingdom\u2019s sports minister and chairman of the Saudi Olympic and Paralympic Committee, for backing other contests including the 2016 Asian Fencing Championship for juniors and Youth in Dammam and the 2019 Asian Fencing Tour for juniors in Riyadh.<\/p>\n<p>Al-Sabban praised the Saudi fencing community, including families, athletes, coaches, referees and administrators for helping to grow the sport.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>DUBAI 16 April (Online): The International Fencing Federation has announced that Saudi Arabia has won the bid to host the 2024 World Fencing Championship for juniors and Youth, one of the sporting code\u2019s biggest contests. The announcement was made at this year\u2019s event in Bulgaria [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":76077,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-sports-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"News Desk\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"News Desk\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2b326eefbddc9c3b180116b6f37cce9f\"},\"headline\":\"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-17T05:30:25+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/\"},\"wordCount\":199,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Sports\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/\",\"name\":\"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2023-04-17T05:30:25+00:00\",\"description\":\"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg\",\"width\":660,\"height\":360},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/\",\"name\":\"Pakistan News International\",\"description\":\"Latest News, Breaking News from Pakistan\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Pakistan News International\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/site-logo.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/site-logo.jpg\",\"width\":431,\"height\":121,\"caption\":\"Pakistan News International\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2b326eefbddc9c3b180116b6f37cce9f\",\"name\":\"News Desk\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34e9ad84679b4a782d4fff9ca3763ebbd7e2cb1b0bb77b91492bba01714a2b4f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34e9ad84679b4a782d4fff9ca3763ebbd7e2cb1b0bb77b91492bba01714a2b4f?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"News Desk\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/author\/zafarmalik\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth","description":"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth","twitter_description":"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth","twitter_image":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"News Desk","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/"},"author":{"name":"News Desk","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2b326eefbddc9c3b180116b6f37cce9f"},"headline":"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth","datePublished":"2023-04-17T05:30:25+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/"},"wordCount":199,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg","articleSection":["Sports"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/","url":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/","name":"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg","datePublished":"2023-04-17T05:30:25+00:00","description":"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/04\/2-252.jpg","width":660,"height":360},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/latest-sports-news\/saudi-arabia-wins-bid-to-host-2024-world-fencing-championship-for-juniors-and-youth\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Saudi Arabia wins bid to host 2024 World Fencing Championship for Juniors and Youth"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#website","url":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/","name":"Pakistan News International","description":"Latest News, Breaking News from Pakistan","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#organization","name":"Pakistan News International","url":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/site-logo.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/12\/site-logo.jpg","width":431,"height":121,"caption":"Pakistan News International"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/2b326eefbddc9c3b180116b6f37cce9f","name":"News Desk","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34e9ad84679b4a782d4fff9ca3763ebbd7e2cb1b0bb77b91492bba01714a2b4f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/34e9ad84679b4a782d4fff9ca3763ebbd7e2cb1b0bb77b91492bba01714a2b4f?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"News Desk"},"url":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/author\/zafarmalik\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76076","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76076"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76078,"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76076\/revisions\/76078"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/76077"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pni.net.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}