{"id":3122,"date":"2026-08-24T22:25:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3122"},"modified":"2026-08-24T22:25:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T22:25:48","slug":"egypts-tolba-earns-foil-bronze-at-mediterranean-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/?p=3122","title":{"rendered":"Egypt\u2019s Tolba earns foil bronze at Mediterranean Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Gazette Staff<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">TARANTO, Italy \u2014 Egyptian fencer Abdel Rahman Tolba won the bronze medal in the men\u2019s foil event at the 2026 Mediterranean Games held in Italy\u2019s Taranto after narrowly losing 15-14 to Italy\u2019s Davide Filippi in the semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Tolba delivered a strong performance in a thrilling semi-final, fighting back after falling behind early due to an injury and mounting a strong challenge against the Italian champion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He reached the semi-finals after defeating Italy\u2019s Giuseppe Franzoni 15-7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier, Tolba beat France\u2019s Eliot Chagnon 15-10 in the quarter-finals. He began his campaign with two wins from five bouts in the group stage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Egyptian fencing delegation is headed by Ahmed Samir, vice president of the Egyptian Fencing Federation. The coaching staff includes foil coach Maher Hamza, \u00e9p\u00e9e coach Islam Gamal and sabre coach Andrea Kostasheva.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gazette Staff TARANTO, Italy \u2014 Egyptian fencer Abdel Rahman Tolba won the bronze medal in the men\u2019s foil event at the 2026 Mediterranean Games held in Italy\u2019s Taranto after narrowly losing 15-14 to Italy\u2019s Davide Filippi in the semi-finals. Tolba delivered a strong performance in a thrilling semi-final, fighting back after falling behind early due&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":0,"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[3242,1585,164,5075,364,5076,5074],"class_list":["post-3122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bronze","tag-earns","tag-egypts","tag-foil","tag-games","tag-mediterranean","tag-tolba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3122\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valutednews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}