{"id":268843,"date":"2025-08-12T00:17:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=268843"},"modified":"2025-08-12T00:17:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-11T18:47:20","slug":"8-yr-old-goyir-shines-in-thailand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/12\/8-yr-old-goyir-shines-in-thailand\/","title":{"rendered":"8-yr-old Goyir shines in Thailand"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 11 Aug:<\/strong> Eight-year-old Goyir Riba from Arunachal Pradesh secured a silver and a bronze medal in the 8th Heroes Cup Taekwondo International Championship in Pattaya, Thailand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She won the silver medal in the Kyorugi event in the 7-8 years category, competing against 13 athletes from four countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Riba won the bronze medal in the Poomsae event, where she competed against 19 competitors from five countries.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Another participant from Arunachal Pradesh, Liken Nyorak also secured one silver and one bronze medal in the Poomsae and Kyorugi event, respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nyorak competed against 12 competitors from as many countries in the Kyorugi event, and 11 competitors from six countries in the Poomsae event, Dr Migo Riba, promoter-cum-manager of the Leparada Taekwondo Academy, Basar, who led the duo, informed in a release.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Both Goyir and Nyorak represented India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Approximately 6,263 athletes from 27 countries participated in the championship.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;The Heroes Cup Taekwondo International Championship was a ranking event with the first three athletes recommended to the World Taekwondo, as recognized by the Taekwondo Association of Thailand,&#8221; Dr Riba said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Arunachal Taekwondo Association general secretary Likha Robin congratulated both the athletes for their brilliant performances in the championship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 11 Aug: Eight-year-old Goyir Riba from Arunachal Pradesh secured a silver and a bronze medal in the 8th Heroes Cup Taekwondo International Championship in Pattaya, Thailand. She won the silver medal in the Kyorugi event in the 7-8 years category, competing against 13 athletes from four countries. Riba won the bronze medal in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":268845,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-268843","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\/268843","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=268843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/268845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}