{"id":55331,"date":"2026-09-20T19:45:17","date_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55331"},"modified":"2026-09-20T19:45:17","modified_gmt":"2026-09-20T14:00:17","slug":"20th-asian-games-nepal-defeats-kyrgyzstan-in-womens-volleyball","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/20th-asian-games-nepal-defeats-kyrgyzstan-in-womens-volleyball\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Asian Games: Nepal defeats Kyrgyzstan in women\u2019s volleyball"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Kathmandu, Sept 20:<\/strong> Nepal secured a convincing victory in women\u2019s volleyball at the 20th Asian Games in Japan, defeating Kyrgyzstan 3-0 in straight sets today.<\/p>\n<p>Nepal dominated the match from the outset, winning the first set 25-20.<\/p>\n<p>The Nepali team maintained its momentum in the second set, claiming it 25-16, before wrapping up the match with a 25-20 victory in the third set.<\/p>\n<p>The win comes as a welcome boost for Nepal after a difficult start to its Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Nepal had suffered straight-set defeats against host Japan and Indonesia in the group stage, losing both matches 3-0.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 20: Nepal secured a convincing victory in women\u2019s volleyball at the 20th Asian Games in Japan, defeating Kyrgyzstan 3-0 in straight sets today. Nepal dominated the match from the outset, winning the first set 25-20. The Nepali team maintained its momentum in the second set, claiming it 25-16, before wrapping up the match [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55331"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55333,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55331\/revisions\/55333"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}