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NAHARLAGUN, 19 Mar:<\/strong> The two-day Khelo India 10 Ka Dam women’s weightlifting event, which was organised with the motive of empowering women through sports, ended at the SAI STC here on Sunday.<\/p>\n Forty-seven athletes participated in the event in different weight categories.<\/p>\n Kaken Doyom won the gold in the below 40 kg category. She lifted 45 kgs in snatch and 57 kgs in clean & jerk, for a total of 102 kgs.<\/p>\n The silver medal and the bronze medal in this category went to Tam Aya and Sartam Chummi Rughu, respectively.<\/p>\n While Aya lifted 97 kgs (snatch 39 kgs + clean & jerk 58 kgs) in total, Rughu lifted 39 kgs in snatch and 51 kgs in clean & jerk, for a total of 90 kgs.<\/p>\n In the below 49 kg category, the gold medal was won by Techi Nadam with a total lift of 131 kgs (snatch 56 kgs + clean & jerk 75 kgs).<\/p>\n Yukar Amak lifted 53 kgs in snatch and 65 kgs in clean & jerk, for a total of 118 kgs to win the silver in this category.<\/p>\n \u00a0The beonze medal in this category was won by Marcy Teli. She lifted 45 kgs in snatch and 63 kgs in clean & jerk (total 108 kgs).<\/p>\n In the below 55 kg category, Pipi Yangfo, Messang Marga and Tage Monyi won the gold, silver and bronze medal, respectively.<\/p>\n Yangfo lifted 65 kgs in snatch and 80 kgs in clean & jerk, for a total of 145 kgs. Marga lifted a total of 111 kgs (snatch 48 kgs + clean & jerk 63 kgs), while Monyi lifted a total of 94 kgs (snatch 42 kgs + clean & jerk 52 kgs).<\/p>\n Liza Kamsha won the gold medal in the below 59 kg category with a total lift of 171 kgs (snatch 70 kgs + clean & jerk 101 kgs).<\/p>\n Junmi Kitniya and Anairy Techi took the silver and bronze medal, respectively.<\/p>\n While Kitniya lifted 38 kgs in snatch and 48 kgs in clean & jerk (total 86 kgs), Techi lifted 34 kgs in snatch and 47 kgs in clean & jerk (total 81 kgs).<\/p>\n In the below 64 kg category, Posen Kongkang took the gold with a total lift of 105 kgs. She lifted 45 kgs in snatch and 60 kgs in clean & jerk.<\/p>\n The silver and bronze medals went to Pisa Angela and Biku Puma, respectively. Angela lifted 36 kgs in snatch and 50 kgs in clean & jerk (total 86 kgs), while Puma lifted 27 kgs in snatch and 38 kgs in clean & jerk, for a total of 65 kgs.<\/p>\n The primary goal of organising the event was to provide a platform to female athletes who are unable to compete at the national\/state level competitions.<\/p>\n The inauguration programme on Saturday was attended by Arunachal Olympic Association president and Education Minister Taba Tedir, and Itanagar MLA Techi Kaso.<\/p>\n The Arunachal Weightlifting Association organised the event in collaboration with the SAI STC here, and the Indian Weightlifting Federation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NAHARLAGUN, 19 Mar: The two-day Khelo India 10 Ka Dam women’s weightlifting event, which was organised with the motive of empowering women through sports, ended at the SAI STC here on Sunday. Forty-seven athletes participated in the event in different weight categories. Kaken Doyom won the gold in the below 40 kg category. She lifted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213218,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-213212","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\/213212","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=213212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213212\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}