{"id":200793,"date":"2022-09-19T01:36:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=200793"},"modified":"2022-09-19T01:36:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T20:06:10","slug":"biri-takar-creates-history-wins-silver-at-bwf-tournament-in-uganda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/09\/19\/biri-takar-creates-history-wins-silver-at-bwf-tournament-in-uganda\/","title":{"rendered":"Biri Takar creates history, wins silver at BWF tournament in Uganda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 18 Sep:<\/strong> Biri Takar of Arunachal Pradesh created history by becoming the first para badminton player from the Northeast to win a medal at the BWF tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Biri takar won a silver medal after losing 12-20, 20-22 to compatriot Naveen Shivakumar in the men&#8217;s singles final of the BWF Uganda Para Badminton Internationals-2022 in the SL4 category on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Takar described his win as a big achievement and a momentous occasion for the state.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;This is a big achievement and a moment of joy for the entire Arunachal Pradesh,&#8221; an elated Takar said in a message from Uganda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;&#8230;2 years of full-time training at Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy. I have sacrificed everything (for badminton). My mother would be so proud now,&#8221; he wrote in the message.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Takar underwent two years&#8217; full-time training at the Pullela Gopichand Badminton Academy in Hyderabad before participating in the event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the high commission of India in Uganda felicitated Takar and all other Indian medal winners on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Takar had reached the pre-quarterfinals in the BWF Spanish Para-Badminton International, which was held in March this year.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is the first para-athlete from the Northeast to represent India in an international badminton event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 18 Sep: Biri Takar of Arunachal Pradesh created history by becoming the first para badminton player from the Northeast to win a medal at the BWF tournament. Biri takar won a silver medal after losing 12-20, 20-22 to compatriot Naveen Shivakumar in the men&#8217;s singles final of the BWF Uganda Para Badminton [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":200801,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-200793","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\/200793","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=200793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}