{"id":5718,"date":"2021-11-08T21:47:21","date_gmt":"2021-11-08T21:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/uncategorized\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship"},"modified":"2021-11-08T22:37:56","modified_gmt":"2021-11-08T22:37:56","slug":"gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship","title":{"rendered":"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. <\/strong><\/span>Gambian wrestler, Bubacarr Mboge, won a silver medal in the just concluded 9th edition of the ECOWAS African Wrestling Championship hosted in the Senegalese Arena National, in Dakar.Bubacarr Mboge who goes by his wrestling sobriquet as \u201cArobas\u201d represented The Gambia in the 100kg category and was outstanding throughout the tournament but managed to grip the silver medal after he was defeated by Senegalese wrestler Modou Faye in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Mboge has now won two silver medals and a bronze medal in his three outings for The Gambia. The Gambia\u2019s team captain for the championship, Abdoukarim Keita lost to Niger opponent in the 66kg bronze medal (3rd place) playoff and dashed Gambia\u2019s hope of a second medal of the tournament.<\/p>\n<p>The Gambian team missed out on a semifinal spot in the group category as they finished second behind group winner and eventual champions Senegal. This year\u2019s tournament was attended by 10 countries namely: Senegal, Niger, Nigeria, Burkina Faso, Benin, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Guinea Bissau and The Gambia. Host Senegal finished as champions followed by Niger and Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For More News And Analysis About <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\">Gambia<\/a> Follow <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Gambia. Gambian wrestler, Bubacarr Mboge, won a silver medal in the just concluded 9th edition of the ECOWAS African Wrestling Championship hosted in the Senegalese Arena National, in Dakar.Bubacarr Mboge who goes by his wrestling sobriquet as \u201cArobas\u201d represented The Gambia in the 100kg category and was outstanding throughout the tournament but managed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":5717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,7,8,17],"tags":[2355,2361,2455,260,2635],"class_list":["post-5718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all-news","category-head-lines","category-homepage-english","category-sport","tag-africa-press","tag-africa-press-gambia","tag-ecowas","tag-gambia","tag-wrestling"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.1 (Yoast SEO v27.0) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship - Gambia<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Gambian wrestler, Bubacarr Mboge, won a silver medal in the just concluded 9th edition of the ECOWAS African Wrestling C ...\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Gambian wrestler, Bubacarr Mboge, won a silver medal in the just concluded 9th edition of the ECOWAS African Wrestling C ...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gambia\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-11-08T21:47:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-11-08T22:37:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"656\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"498\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"cfeditoren\" \/>\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:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"headline\":\"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-08T21:47:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-08T22:37:56+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship\"},\"wordCount\":203,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Africa Press\",\"Africa Press-Gambia\",\"Ecowas\",\"Gambia\",\"wrestling\"],\"articleSection\":[\"all news\",\"head lines\",\"homepage-english\",\"sport\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship\",\"name\":\"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship - Gambia\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-11-08T21:47:21+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-11-08T22:37:56+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\"},\"description\":\"Gambian wrestler, Bubacarr Mboge, won a silver medal in the just concluded 9th edition of the ECOWAS African Wrestling C ...\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg\",\"width\":656,\"height\":498,\"caption\":\"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/\",\"name\":\"Gambia\",\"description\":\"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb\",\"name\":\"cfeditoren\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"cfeditoren\"}}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship - Gambia","description":"Gambian wrestler, Bubacarr Mboge, won a silver medal in the just concluded 9th edition of the ECOWAS African Wrestling C ...","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:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship","og_description":"Gambian wrestler, Bubacarr Mboge, won a silver medal in the just concluded 9th edition of the ECOWAS African Wrestling C ...","og_url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship","og_site_name":"Gambia","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/AfricaPressTunisiaa","article_published_time":"2021-11-08T21:47:21+00:00","article_modified_time":"2021-11-08T22:37:56+00:00","og_image":[{"width":656,"height":498,"url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"cfeditoren","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"cfeditoren","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship"},"author":{"name":"cfeditoren","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"headline":"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship","datePublished":"2021-11-08T21:47:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-08T22:37:56+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship"},"wordCount":203,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg","keywords":["Africa Press","Africa Press-Gambia","Ecowas","Gambia","wrestling"],"articleSection":["all news","head lines","homepage-english","sport"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship","name":"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship - Gambia","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg","datePublished":"2021-11-08T21:47:21+00:00","dateModified":"2021-11-08T22:37:56+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb"},"description":"Gambian wrestler, Bubacarr Mboge, won a silver medal in the just concluded 9th edition of the ECOWAS African Wrestling C ...","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/static.africa-press.net\/gambia\/sites\/19\/2021\/11\/img-6189a69e786db.jpg","width":656,"height":498,"caption":"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/all-news\/gambia-wins-silver-in-100kg-category-of-ecowas-wrestling-championship#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Gambia wins silver in 100kg category of ECOWAS wrestling championship"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/","name":"Gambia","description":"Just another Africa News Agency Sites site","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/068c7ab4e9634ae78ec5d54ec46598bb","name":"cfeditoren","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7417380fa9e23b5c57fdbfdaf3fdf92ee478f759a084addda5faa3732853e74a?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"cfeditoren"}}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/84"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/gambia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}