{"id":276679,"date":"2026-01-19T00:29:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=276679"},"modified":"2026-01-19T00:29:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T18:59:23","slug":"takar-settles-for-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/01\/19\/takar-settles-for-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Takar settles for bronze"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 18 Jan:<\/strong> Shuttler Biri Takar from Arunachal Pradesh lost in the doubles semifinal and settled for bronze at the Egypt Para Badminton International, 2026.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Takar, partnering with England&#8217;s Curnow Pirbhai-Clarke, went down fighting 20-21 and 19-21 to World No 1 pair of Promod Bhagat and Sukant Kadam from India in Cairo on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Egypt Para Badminton International is a BWF Level-2 tournament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, competing in the SL4 category, Takar lost his singles quarterfinals match to World No 6 Diogo Daniel from Portugal in a three-setter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He won the first set 21-12 but lost the remaining two sets 13-21 &amp; 15-21.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">After losing the match narrowly, Takar said, &#8220;Playing against the world&#8217;s best in Egypt was an incredible experience from me.&#8221; He said, &#8220;Taking the World No 6 to third set shows that hard work pays off.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Hoping to come back stronger next time,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 18 Jan: Shuttler Biri Takar from Arunachal Pradesh lost in the doubles semifinal and settled for bronze at the Egypt Para Badminton International, 2026. Takar, partnering with England&#8217;s Curnow Pirbhai-Clarke, went down fighting 20-21 and 19-21 to World No 1 pair of Promod Bhagat and Sukant Kadam from India in Cairo on Saturday. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":276683,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-276679","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\/276679","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=276679"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276679\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276684,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276679\/revisions\/276684"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/276683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}