{"id":268221,"date":"2025-08-01T00:28:31","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T18:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=268221"},"modified":"2025-08-02T11:28:59","modified_gmt":"2025-08-02T05:58:59","slug":"tara-creates-history-at-asian-pencak-silat-championship-in-vietnam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/01\/tara-creates-history-at-asian-pencak-silat-championship-in-vietnam\/","title":{"rendered":"Tara creates history at Asian Pencak Silat Championship in Vietnam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 31 Jul:<\/strong> Jeevan Tara has become the first male athlete from Arunachal Pradesh to win a medal in the senior men&#8217;s category in any Asian-level championship across all disciplines.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tara achieved the feat when he secured the bronze medal at the 9th Asian Pencak Silat Championship,2025, held in Vietnam, Arunachal Pradesh Pencak Silat Association (APPSA) general secretary P Nobin Jomoh said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Representing India at the championship, Tara secured the medal in the U-45 kg category (Class D) on Wednesday. The event concluded on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0Jomoh said that the APPSA, in affiliation with the Indian Pencak Silat Federation, has consistently promoted this style of martial art and produced several national and Northeast-level medalists in recent years.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tara&#8217;s success indicates the state&#8217;s growing sports culture and its athletes&#8217; potential, he said, adding that his achievement deserves wide recognition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 31 Jul: Jeevan Tara has become the first male athlete from Arunachal Pradesh to win a medal in the senior men&#8217;s category in any Asian-level championship across all disciplines. Tara achieved the feat when he secured the bronze medal at the 9th Asian Pencak Silat Championship,2025, held in Vietnam, Arunachal Pradesh Pencak Silat Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268243,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268221","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\/268221","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=268221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268221\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268243"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}