{"id":55231,"date":"2018-12-19T02:08:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=55231"},"modified":"2018-12-19T02:08:21","modified_gmt":"2018-12-18T20:38:21","slug":"arunachalee-lifter-creates-national-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2018\/12\/19\/arunachalee-lifter-creates-national-record\/","title":{"rendered":"Arunachalee lifter creates national record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, Dec 18:<\/strong> Markio Taro of Arunachal Pradesh created a national weightlifting record in his maiden appearance in the Youth and Junior National Weightlifting Championship, currently underway at Nagpur, Maharashtra.<br \/>\nA student of the Army Sports Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, Markio achieved the feat by lifting a total 251 kgs in the 67 kg bodyweight category on Tuesday, informed the Arunachal Weightlifting Association.<br \/>\nThe 14-year-old, who lifted 105 kgs in snatch and 146 kgs in clean &amp; jerk, also happens to be the nephew of former national record holder Yukar Sibi.<br \/>\nBy virtue of winning the gold, Tario made an easy berth in the national coaching camp to be held shortly at Patiala, Punjab.<br \/>\nCompeting in the same weight category, Ruba Tadu won the bronze with a total lift of 242 kgs (snatch &#8211; 107 kgs + clean &amp; jerk &#8211; 135 kgs).<br \/>\nIn the boys&#8217; 49 kg category, Tami Tame clinched the silver by lifting 77 kgs in snatch and 95 kgs in clean &amp; jerk for a total of 172 kgs.<br \/>\nAnai Wangsu won a bronze in the girls&#8217; 55 kg category. She lifted 65 kgs in snatch and 80 kgs in clean &amp; jerk (total 145 kgs).<br \/>\nWith the addition of four medals on Tuesday, Arunachal&#8217;s medal tally on day three of the championship rose to six (one gold, two silver and three bronze).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Dec 18: Markio Taro of Arunachal Pradesh created a national weightlifting record in his maiden appearance in the Youth and Junior National Weightlifting Championship, currently underway at Nagpur, Maharashtra. A student of the Army Sports Institute, Pune, Maharashtra, Markio achieved the feat by lifting a total 251 kgs in the 67 kg bodyweight category [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":55232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-55231","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\/55231","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=55231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}