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ITANAGAR, 7 Feb:<\/strong> Boni Mangkhya of Arunachal Pradesh lifted a total of 176 kgs in the 55 kg bodyweight category to create a new national weightlifting record in the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday.<\/p>\n She lifted 74 kgs in snatch and 102 kgs in clean & jerk to win the gold medal, chef-de-mission Karbia Dodum informed.<\/p>\n Sankar Lapung also won a gold medal in the 61 kg weight category by lifting a total weight of 248 kgs (snatch 108 + clean & jerk 140 kgs).<\/p>\n Besides the two gold medals, Arunachal won one silver medal and one bronze medal in the weightlifting event on Tuesday.<\/p>\n Markio Tario won the silver medal in the 67 kg bodyweight category with a total lift of 269 kgs (snatch 119 + clean & jerk 150 kgs).<\/p>\n The bonze medal was won by Bengia Tani. He lifted 117 kgs in snatch and 150 kgs in clean & jerk.<\/p>\n Golom Tinku (61 kg) lifted 237 kgs in total (snatch 102 + clean & jerk 135 kgs) to secure the 4th position overall among the 13 competitors.<\/p>\n Competing in the 49 kg bodyweight category, Yukar Amak lifted a total of 127 kgs (snatch 53 kgs + clean & jerk 74 kgs). She secured the 8th position overall among the 13 competitors.<\/p>\n Kampu Degio (67 kg) also could not make it to the podium. He lifted 106 kgs in snatch and 129 kgs in clean & jerk for a total of 235 kgs. He finished 9th overall out of the 12 competitors.<\/p>\n Arunachal has so far won seven medals – two gold, one silver and four bronze – and was standing at 17th overall in the medal table and second among the Northeastern states.<\/p>\n On Wednesday, Pipi Yangfo, Balo Yalam and Tayar Ronik will compete in their respective weight categories in the weightlifting event.<\/p>\n The judo event will begin on Wednesday. Four judokas from the state – Pomen Teppa, Tang Tada, Wangdong Lowang and Kentu Lap – will be seen in action on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Ginjin Tari will compete in the ‘road individual time trial’ of the cycling event.<\/p>\n John Sangdo and Amit Sangdo will compete in the Thnag-Ta event on Wednesday.<\/p>\n Arunachal’s girls’ football team will meet West Bengal in the first semifinal on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 7 Feb: Boni Mangkhya of Arunachal Pradesh lifted a total of 176 kgs in the 55 kg bodyweight category to create a new national weightlifting record in the Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG) in Madhya Pradesh on Tuesday. She lifted 74 kgs in snatch and 102 kgs in clean & jerk to win the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":210507,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-210506","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\/210506","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=210506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210506\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}