{"id":227651,"date":"2023-11-02T02:43:27","date_gmt":"2023-11-01T21:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=227651"},"modified":"2023-11-02T02:49:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-01T21:19:21","slug":"national-games-arunachal-wins-3-gold-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2023\/11\/02\/national-games-arunachal-wins-3-gold-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"National Games: Arunachal wins 3 gold medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 1 Nov:<\/strong> Arunachal Pradesh won three back-to-back gold medals in Taekwondo and Wushu, taking the state&#8217;s medal tally to six at the ongoing 37th National Games in Goa on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Radha Bangsia and Ontey Khamblai earned the first gold medal for the state in U-30 mixed pair Taekwondo Poomsae.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The second gold was won by Mercy Ngaimong in Changquan Wushu with an overall score of 9 points out of 10.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The trio of Khinsen Wangsu, Lumter Uli and Achum Sangha won the third gold medal in Taekwondo female U-30 group Poomsae, chef de mission Bulang Marik informed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another Wushu player from Arunachal Taug Ama lost to Hangzhou Asian Games silver medalist N. Rosibana Devi of Manipur, after giving a tough fight in below 60 kg category.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Last year&#8217;s gold medalist Onilu Tega advanced to the quarterfinal of the women&#8217;s below 52 kg Sanda event. She will play against Namrata Bhatra of Madhya Pradesh on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mepung Lamgu and Rialu Boo will compete in Taijiquan while Nyeman Wangsu will compete in Daoshu on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lamgu and Wangsu had also won a gold medal each in the previous edition of the National Games in Gujarat while, Boo had won a silver medal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In boxing, Mangfi Memi will be up against Vinakshi of Himachal Pradesh in the women&#8217;s 54-57 kg featherweight category on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, 1 Nov: Arunachal Pradesh won three back-to-back gold medals in Taekwondo and Wushu, taking the state&#8217;s medal tally to six at the ongoing 37th National Games in Goa on Wednesday. Radha Bangsia and Ontey Khamblai earned the first gold medal for the state in U-30 mixed pair Taekwondo Poomsae. The second gold [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227666,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-227651","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\/227651","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=227651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227651\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}