{"id":218087,"date":"2023-06-09T00:30:33","date_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=218087"},"modified":"2023-06-09T00:30:33","modified_gmt":"2023-06-08T19:00:33","slug":"lifter-pungni-tara-wins-gold-in-national-school-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/06\/09\/lifter-pungni-tara-wins-gold-in-national-school-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifter Pungni Tara wins gold in National School Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 8 Jun:<\/strong> Pungni Tara of Arunachal Pradesh won a gold medal on the first day of the National School Games Weightlifting in Delhi on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tara, a Class 11 student of the government secondary school (GSS) in G Sector, Naharlagun, lifted 52 kgs in snatch and 68 kgs in clean &amp; jerk, for a total of 120 kgs in the 45 kg bodyweight category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Arunachal bagged a total of four medals on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Sime Tara and Pipi Yangfo won a silver medal each in their respective weight categories.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Competing in the 55 kg category, (Sime) Tara lifted a total of 191 kgs (snatch 81 kgs + clean &amp; jerk 110 kgs). He is a Class 12 student of GHSS, Kangkar Nallah, Naharlagun.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On the other hand, Yangfo (59 kg) lifted 65 kgs in snatch and 82 kgs in clean &amp; jerk, for a total weight of 147 kgs. She is a Class 12 student of GHSS, Ganga village, Itanagar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Messang Marga of GSS G Sector, Naharlagun, won a bronze medal with a total lift of 119 kgs (snatch 51 kgs + clean &amp; jerk 68 kgs).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Class 12 student, Marga competed in the below 49 kg category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 8 Jun: Pungni Tara of Arunachal Pradesh won a gold medal on the first day of the National School Games Weightlifting in Delhi on Thursday. Tara, a Class 11 student of the government secondary school (GSS) in G Sector, Naharlagun, lifted 52 kgs in snatch and 68 kgs in clean &amp; jerk, for a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":218090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-218087","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\/218087","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=218087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/218090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}