{"id":59187,"date":"2017-07-31T08:39:37","date_gmt":"2017-07-31T07:39:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=59187"},"modified":"2017-07-31T08:39:37","modified_gmt":"2017-07-31T07:39:37","slug":"turkey-ranks-4th-in-deaflympics-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/turkey-ranks-4th-in-deaflympics-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Turkey Ranks 4th in Deaflympics Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Turkey ranked fourth at the end of the 23rd Deaflympics games held at the coastal Black Sea province of Samsun on Sunday with a total of 46 medals.<\/h2>\n<p>Russia came first with 85 gold, 53 silver and 46 bronze medals.<\/p>\n<p>Ukraine followed with 99 medals including 21 gold, 42 silver and 36 bronze while South Korea ranked third with 52.<\/p>\n<p>The 23rd Summer Deaflympics began on July 18 with more than 3,000 athletes from 97 countries &#8212; marking the largest number of participants in the event\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p>The athletes competed in 21 categories, including athletics, basketball, football, swimming and wrestling, at 37 venues in eight districts in Samsun.<\/p>\n<p>Turkey had 294 athletes participating in the games.<\/p>\n<p>The first games for the deaf, known then as the International Silent Games, were held in 1924 in Paris with athletes from nine European nations participating.<\/p>\n<span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #f00;\">Error, group does not exist! Check your syntax! (ID: 9)<\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Turkey ranked fourth at the end of the 23rd Deaflympics games held at the coastal Black Sea province of Samsun on Sunday with a total of 46 medals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":59188,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,127],"tags":[77182],"class_list":["post-59187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-news","category-sport","tag-turkey"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59187"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59187\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}