{"id":202298,"date":"2022-10-09T02:51:39","date_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:21:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=202298"},"modified":"2022-10-09T02:54:08","modified_gmt":"2022-10-08T21:24:08","slug":"lamgu-wins-gold-boo-silver-at-national-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2022\/10\/09\/lamgu-wins-gold-boo-silver-at-national-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Lamgu wins gold, Boo silver at National Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>GANDHINAGAR, 8 Oct:<\/strong> Mepung Lamgu lived up to expectations by clinching a gold medal in wushu in the ongoing National Games here in Gujarat on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She clinched the medal in Taijiquan and Taijijian all-round event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On a fruitful day, compatriot Realu Boo also won a silver medal in the same event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We were expecting them to win medals and they lived up to the expectations,&#8221; chef-de-mission Abraham K Techi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Indian Olympic Association secretary-general Rajeev Mehta also witnessed the wushu events and was highly impressed by the performance of Lamgu and Boo, Techi said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Lamgu and Boo&#8217;s performance standards were world class,&#8221; Techi said, quoting the IOA secretary-general as saying.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Two other wushu players from the state, Onilu Tega and Taug Ama, also advanced to the quarterfinals of the women&#8217;s 52 kg and 60 kg category, respectively, after winning their first round competitions on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In judo, Kamdon Boi, the lone participants from the state in the event, lost in the first round against his superior opponent and international player from Rajasthan on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was a heartbreak for Boi as he lost the bout in extra-time. The bout went to over-time, known as golden score, after points remained tied during the regulation time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With Saturday&#8217;s gold and silver, Arunachal&#8217;s medal tally in the ongoing National Games rose from two to four &#8211; three gold medals and one silver medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter GANDHINAGAR, 8 Oct: Mepung Lamgu lived up to expectations by clinching a gold medal in wushu in the ongoing National Games here in Gujarat on Saturday. She clinched the medal in Taijiquan and Taijijian all-round event. On a fruitful day, compatriot Realu Boo also won a silver medal in the same event. &#8220;We [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":202311,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-202298","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\/202298","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=202298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/202311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}