{"id":263953,"date":"2025-05-14T01:00:41","date_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=263953"},"modified":"2025-05-14T01:08:37","modified_gmt":"2025-05-13T19:38:37","slug":"kiyg-lifter-tayar-ronik-clinches-gold","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/05\/14\/kiyg-lifter-tayar-ronik-clinches-gold\/","title":{"rendered":"KIYG: Lifter Tayar Ronik clinches gold"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 13 May:<\/strong> Tayar Ronik captured Arunachal Pradesh&#8217; first gold medal in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG)-2025 after lifting 154 kgs in clean &amp; jerk in his third attempt to pip Hemanta Doimari of Assam in the 73kg class on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tayar lifted a total of 267 kgs, one kilogram more than Doimari.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Doimari lifted 146 kgs in the snatch and 120 kgs in clean and jerk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Madhya Pradesh&#8217; Himanshu Kushwaha settled for the bronze with a total lift of 255 kgs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After being medal-less at the last two Khelo India Youth Games and three Indian Weightlifting Federation National Youth Championships, Ronik overcame self-doubt to lay his hands on the yellow metal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I am delighted with this victory as this is my first Khelo India medal after participating for the third time. Also, I had missed out on a medal in the Nationals in my previous three attempts, so it is a huge relief for me as I know how much hard work I put in to reach here. I didn&#8217;t go to my hometown after the Nationals in October last year as I was very unhappy with myself for not being able to win a medal there,&#8221; he was quoted as saying by Sports Authority of India [SAI] Media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I resolved that I would go home only when I won one,&#8221; Tayar, who began lifting weights at 9 years of age, told SAI Media.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, Tersu Tali (-66kg) and Taba Titung (-60kg) had won a bronze medal each in their respective weight categories in the KIYG.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 13 May: Tayar Ronik captured Arunachal Pradesh&#8217; first gold medal in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games (KIYG)-2025 after lifting 154 kgs in clean &amp; jerk in his third attempt to pip Hemanta Doimari of Assam in the 73kg class on Monday. Tayar lifted a total of 267 kgs, one kilogram more than Doimari. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263961,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-263953","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\/263953","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=263953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}