{"id":79181,"date":"2019-09-17T03:04:41","date_gmt":"2019-09-16T21:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=79181"},"modified":"2019-09-17T03:04:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-16T21:34:41","slug":"joti-mane-becomes-first-athlete-from-arunachal-to-win-gold-in-natl-athletics-cship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2019\/09\/17\/joti-mane-becomes-first-athlete-from-arunachal-to-win-gold-in-natl-athletics-cship\/","title":{"rendered":"Joti Mane becomes first athlete from Arunachal to win gold in nat&#8217;l athletics c&#8217;ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Staff Reporter <\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>ITANAGAR, Sep 16<\/strong>: Joti Mane has become the first athlete from Arunachal Pradesh to win a gold medal in any national athletics championship.<br \/>\nThe athlete achieved the feat when she won the 5000-mtr race in the girls&#8217; U-20 category in the 31st East Zone Junior Athletics Championship, held in the capital city of Jharkhand, Ranchi, on 14 and 15 September.<br \/>\nMane, a BA Semester-I student of Dera Natung Government College here, also bagged the bronze medal in the 1,500-mtr race in the event.<br \/>\nShe is the daughter of Taling Mane and Yajum Mane of Shi-Yomi district. She is currently training under Arunachal Athletics Association (AAA) coach M Priokumar Meitei at the Sangay Lhaden Sports Academy.<br \/>\nBamo Tanang bagged the second bronze and the state&#8217;s third medal in the 10,000-mtr race in the junior boys&#8217; U-20 category in the event.<br \/>\nHailing from Kurung Kumey district, Tanang is a Class 12 student.<br \/>\nArunachal had fielded 10 athletes in the event.<br \/>\nIn 2018, Anung Wangsu and Achik Wangsa had won a silver medal each in the 5000-mtr race and in shot put, respectively, in the East Zone Athletics Championship, which was held in Patna, Bihar, on 15 and 16 September.<br \/>\nThe east zone comprises Bihar, Jharkhand, Odisha, West Bengal, Andaman &amp; Nicobar Islands, and the eight northeastern states.<br \/>\nArunachal Olympic Association president Padi Richo congratulated both the medal winners, especially Mane for winning the state&#8217;s maiden gold medal in the national level athletic championship.<br \/>\nAAA general secretary Kage Dodum has announced a cash prize of Rs 10,000 for Mane and Rs 5000 each for the bronze medal winners and the team coach.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Staff Reporter ITANAGAR, Sep 16: Joti Mane has become the first athlete from Arunachal Pradesh to win a gold medal in any national athletics championship. The athlete achieved the feat when she won the 5000-mtr race in the girls&#8217; U-20 category in the 31st East Zone Junior Athletics Championship, held in the capital city of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":79183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-79181","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\/79181","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=79181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}