{"id":185394,"date":"2022-02-28T00:43:09","date_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=185394"},"modified":"2022-02-28T00:43:09","modified_gmt":"2022-02-27T19:13:09","slug":"lifters-vikas-thakur-venkat-rahul-ragala-win-gold-and-bronze-qualify-for-cwg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/02\/28\/lifters-vikas-thakur-venkat-rahul-ragala-win-gold-and-bronze-qualify-for-cwg\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifters Vikas Thakur, Venkat Rahul Ragala win gold and bronze, qualify for CWG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Singapore, Feb 27 (PTI) Indian lifters Vikas Thakur and Venkat Rahul Ragala sealed Commonwealth Games berth on Sunday by clinching the gold and bronze medals respectively in the men&#8217;s 96kg event at the Singapore Weightlifting International here.<br \/>\nIndia concluded its campaign at the event with a haul of eight medals, including six golds and a silver and bronze each.<br \/>\nAll Indian lifters competing in the event qualified for the Commonwealth Games, including Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu in her new 55kg weight division.<br \/>\nCompeting in a severely depleted three-lifter field Thakur, a two time Commonwealth Games medallist, lifted 339kg (151kg+188kg) to finish on top of the podium.<br \/>\nRagala, the reigning Commonwealth Games champion in the 85kg category, had a best effort of 328kg (146kg+188kg) to claim the third spot.<br \/>\nAustralia Ridge Barredo clinched the silver medal with a lift of 336kg (149kg+187kg).<br \/>\nBoth Thakur and Ragal qualified for the CWG in Birmingham later this year.<br \/>\nThe Singapore Weightlifting International is a qualifying event for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.<br \/>\nThe top eight lifters in each weight category in the ongoing tournament will directly qualify for the 2022 CWG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Singapore, Feb 27 (PTI) Indian lifters Vikas Thakur and Venkat Rahul Ragala sealed Commonwealth Games berth on Sunday by clinching the gold and bronze medals respectively in the men&#8217;s 96kg event at the Singapore Weightlifting International here. India concluded its campaign at the event with a haul of eight medals, including six golds and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-185394","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185394","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=185394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/185394\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=185394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=185394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=185394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}