{"id":86967,"date":"2026-09-22T15:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86967"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:43:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T07:43:00","slug":"singapore-mma-fighter-tiffany-teo-wins-historic-asian-games-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=86967","title":{"rendered":"Singapore MMA fighter Tiffany Teo wins historic Asian Games gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>TOKYO: Mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Tiffany Teo made history for Singapore on Tuesday (Sep 22) when she won a historic Asian Games gold.<\/p>\n<p>Teo beat Uzbekistan&#8217;s Khilola Sobirova in the women&#8217;s traditional 60kg final at the Nagoya City Inae Sports Center to clinch Singapore\u2019s first gold of the 20th Asian Games.<\/p>\n<p>Teo had competed against Sobirova at the Asian Mixed Martial Arts Championship in May, falling to her in the final.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the Games, the 36-year-old Singaporean beat Iran&#8217;s Arezou Salimighalehtaki and followed that up with a victory over India&#8217;s Suchika Tariyal on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first Asian Games to feature MMA in its programme.<\/p>\n<p>MMA is one of six sports making their Asian Games debuts at Aichi-Nagoya 2026. The others are freestyle BMX, padel, surfing, teqball and <span>virtual taekwondo<\/span>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<center><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/asian-games-tiffany-teo-mma-final-6401061\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><br \/>\n<center\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TOKYO: Mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Tiffany Teo made history for Singapore on Tuesday (Sep 22) when she won a historic Asian Games gold. Teo&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--wFpZvbS_--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/09\/22\/tiffany_teo.jpeg?itok=nCcEY20g","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[2027,3444,321,6999,5772,13335,22,14,12844,1011],"class_list":["post-86967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-asian","tag-fighter","tag-games","tag-gold","tag-historic","tag-mma","tag-singapore","tag-teo","tag-tiffany","tag-wins","wpcat-2-id"],"brizy_media":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=86967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/86968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=86967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=86967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=86967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}