{"id":269027,"date":"2025-08-15T00:32:30","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=269027"},"modified":"2025-08-15T00:32:30","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T19:02:30","slug":"wushu-athlete-namrata-batra-wins-silver-medal-in-world-games-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2025\/08\/15\/wushu-athlete-namrata-batra-wins-silver-medal-in-world-games-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Wushu athlete Namrata Batra wins silver medal in World Games-2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 14 Aug:<\/strong> Wushu athlete Namrata Batra of the Sports Authority of India&#8217;s (SAI) National Centre of Excellence (NCoE), Itanagar, has won a silver medal in the ongoing World Games-2025 in Chengdu, China.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She has become the first Indian wushu athlete to win a silver medal in the World Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Batra secured the silver medal in the women&#8217;s 52 kg sanda against China&#8217;s Mengyue Chen in the final match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With this, India has so far secured seven medals at the World Games.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wushu-athlete-Namrata-Batra-wins-silver-medal-in-World-Games-2025-2.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-269029 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wushu-athlete-Namrata-Batra-wins-silver-medal-in-World-Games-2025-2.webp\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wushu-athlete-Namrata-Batra-wins-silver-medal-in-World-Games-2025-2.webp 886w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wushu-athlete-Namrata-Batra-wins-silver-medal-in-World-Games-2025-2-300x255.webp 300w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wushu-athlete-Namrata-Batra-wins-silver-medal-in-World-Games-2025-2-768x652.webp 768w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wushu-athlete-Namrata-Batra-wins-silver-medal-in-World-Games-2025-2-495x420.webp 495w, https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/Wushu-athlete-Namrata-Batra-wins-silver-medal-in-World-Games-2025-2-696x591.webp 696w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a>24-year-old Batra is a final year master of commerce student and currently trains at the SAI NCoE, Itanagar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, another wushu athlete, R Atish Raj of SAI NCoE, Itanagar, had won a gold, a silver and a bronze medal in the recently concluded Batumi International Wushu Championship held in Georgia from 1 to 7 August.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Terming it &#8220;a historic medal for India&#8221; in the wushu discipline in the World Games, the SAI NCoE in a release on Thursday stated that the institute&#8217;s athletes have been shining in various international competitions every consecutive year since 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 14 Aug: Wushu athlete Namrata Batra of the Sports Authority of India&#8217;s (SAI) National Centre of Excellence (NCoE), Itanagar, has won a silver medal in the ongoing World Games-2025 in Chengdu, China. She has become the first Indian wushu athlete to win a silver medal in the World Games. Batra secured the silver medal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":269028,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-269027","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\/269027","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=269027"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269027\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269027"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269027"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269027"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}