{"id":168984,"date":"2021-08-12T03:09:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=168984"},"modified":"2021-08-12T03:09:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-11T21:39:00","slug":"arunachal-lifters-shine-in-national-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2021\/08\/12\/arunachal-lifters-shine-in-national-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachal lifters shine in National Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Bengia Tani and Charu Pessi clinch gold<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 11 Aug:<\/strong> Bengia Tani and Charu Pessi clinched a gold medal each in the National Weightlifting Championship being held in SAI, Patiala in Punjab.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tani lifted 105 kg in snatch and 135 kg in clean &amp; jerk for a total of 240 kg in the boys&#8217; youth category, while Pessi lifted a total of 249 kg (snatch 111 kg + clean &amp; jerk 138 kg) in the junior category. Both the lifters took part in the 61 kg weight category<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arunachal also bagged three silver and five bronze medals in the championship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The silver medal winners are Tadar Tagin (49kg), Boni Mangkhya (55kg) and Markio Tario (67kg).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">While Tagin\u00a0 lifted 76 kg in the snatch and 97 kg in the clean &amp; jerk for a total of\u00a0 173 kg in the boys&#8217; youth section,\u00a0 Tario bagged the medal in the men&#8217;s senior category\u00a0 with a total lift of 271 kg (snatch 115 + clean &amp; jerk 156 kg). Tario also bagged a bronze medal in overall lift.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mangkhya clinched the medal with a total lift of 152 kg (snatch 67kg + clean &amp; jerk 85 kg) in the girls&#8217; youth category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Golom Tinku (55kg), Shankar Lapung (61kg), Lalu Taku (81kg) and Balo Yalam (59 kg) bagged a bronze medal each in the championship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Participating in the boys&#8217; youth section, Tinku lifted a total of 204 kg (snatch 87 kg + clean &amp; jerk 117 kg), while Lapung lifted 107 kg in the snatch and 130 kg in the clean &amp; jerk for a total of 237 kg.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Taku lifted 128 kg in the snatch and 160 kg in the clean &amp; jerk for a total of 289 kg in the men&#8217;s senior category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Yalam won the fifth bronze for the state with a total lift of 146 kg (snatch 61 kg+ clean &amp; jerk 85 kg).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sandhya Gungli\u00a0 and\u00a0 Tadar Neha (45kg) finished 5th\u00a0 and 6th\u00a0 places, respectively in the girls&#8217; category.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bengia Tani and Charu Pessi clinch gold ITANAGAR, 11 Aug: Bengia Tani and Charu Pessi clinched a gold medal each in the National Weightlifting Championship being held in SAI, Patiala in Punjab. Tani lifted 105 kg in snatch and 135 kg in clean &amp; jerk for a total of 240 kg in the boys&#8217; youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168996,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-168984","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168984","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168984"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168984\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}