{"id":23918,"date":"2014-07-20T08:33:34","date_gmt":"2014-07-20T15:33:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23918"},"modified":"2014-07-20T08:55:41","modified_gmt":"2014-07-20T15:55:41","slug":"x-isf-jr-world-championship-at-whitehorse-medal-histories-of-final-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/?p=23918","title":{"rendered":"X ISF Jr. World Championship at Whitehorse &#8211; Medal Histories of Three Finalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_23915\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-23915\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/worldfastpitch2014.com\/en\/home\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WHlogo-300x138.png\" alt=\"Click logo for official website\" width=\"300\" height=\"138\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-23915\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WHlogo-300x138.png 300w, https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/WHlogo.png 409w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-23915\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click logo for official website<\/figcaption><\/figure>The X ISF Jr. World Championship of Softball comes to a close today at Whitehorse, Yukon.  Three teams remain in contention for the gold medal, and all three will medal.  New Zealand earned a spot in the gold medal game with a 3-1 win over Argentina, who suffered their first loss of the tournament.  <\/p>\n<p>Japan topped Australia and will face Argentina in the bronze medal game, and a spot in the final.<\/p>\n<p>A look at the medal history of the remaining:<\/p>\n<p><strong>New Zealand<\/strong> has won four medals, two gold and two silver, but not since 1997, 17 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>    2 Gold (1985 and 1989)<br \/>\n    2 Silver (1993 and 1997)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Argentina<\/strong> has won 1 medal, a gold in 2012, at Parana, Argentina, and are the reigning world champions.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Japan<\/strong> has won 7 medals (tied for the lead currently with Canada going into today&#8217;s games):<\/p>\n<p>    1 Gold (1981)<br \/>\n    3 Silver, (&#8217;01, &#8217;05 and 2012)<br \/>\n    3 Bronze, (&#8217;89, &#8217;93 and &#8217;08)<br \/>\n    a 4th<br \/>\n    and a 5th.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The X ISF Jr. World Championship of Softball comes to a close today at Whitehorse, Yukon. Three teams remain in contention for the gold medal, and all three will medal. New Zealand earned a spot in the gold medal game with a 3-1 win over Argentina, who suffered their first loss of the tournament. Japan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23677,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5,12,35,23,27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23918","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-canada","8":"category-isf","9":"category-oceania","10":"category-tournaments","11":"category-youth","12":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23918"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23920,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23918\/revisions\/23920"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fastpitchwest.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}