{"id":57472,"date":"2019-01-12T02:14:37","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:44:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=57472"},"modified":"2019-01-12T02:14:37","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T20:44:37","slug":"lifter-bags-one-more-medal-for-arunachal-in-khelo-india-youth-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/01\/12\/lifter-bags-one-more-medal-for-arunachal-in-khelo-india-youth-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Lifter bags one more medal for Arunachal in Khelo India Youth Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Jan 11:<\/strong> Arunachal continued their impressive performance in weightlifting in the Khelo India Youth Games, currently underway in Pune, Maha-rashtra, by bagging one silver medal on Friday.<br \/>\nThe medal was won by Anai Wangsu in the girls&#8217; U-17 and below 55 kg bodyweight category.<br \/>\nShe lifted 60 kgs in snatch and 81 kgs in clean &amp; jerk for a total of 141 kgs.<br \/>\nWith the addition of the medal, the state&#8217;s medal count rose to eight from an overnight tally of seven, Sports Director Tadar Appa informed.<br \/>\nPosen Kongkang and P Sakhenbi Devi failed to make it to the podium, finishing in fifth and sixth positions in their respective age and bodyweight category.<br \/>\nSakhenbi Devi lifted 75 kgs in snatch and 96 kgs in clean &amp; jerk in the girls&#8217; U-21 and 59 kg bodyweight category, while Posen could lift 58 kgs in snatch and 75 kgs in clean &amp; jerk for a total of 133 kgs in the girls&#8217; U-17 and 59 kg bodyweight category.<br \/>\nIn Judo, Silom Tesia lost to her opponent from Manipur in the first round.<br \/>\nLaa Tukum will meet Gandham Pranav Rao of Telangana in the boys&#8217; U-17 badminton semifinal on Saturday.<br \/>\nHe beat Manav Choudhury of Haryana in straight 21-10 and 21-4 sets in the quarterfinal.<br \/>\nAchick Wangsa finished 10th in the girls&#8217; U-17 shot put, and Nabam Deram bowed out of the first round (heat round) of the boys&#8217; U-17 400 m race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, Jan 11: Arunachal continued their impressive performance in weightlifting in the Khelo India Youth Games, currently underway in Pune, Maha-rashtra, by bagging one silver medal on Friday. The medal was won by Anai Wangsu in the girls&#8217; U-17 and below 55 kg bodyweight category. She lifted 60 kgs in snatch and 81 kgs in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":57493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-57472","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\/57472","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=57472"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57472\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/57493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}