{"id":21185,"date":"2018-02-07T12:22:37","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=21185"},"modified":"2018-02-07T12:22:37","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T12:22:37","slug":"khelo-india-school-games-maharashtra-complete-medal-sweep-in-weightlifting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/khelo-india-school-games-maharashtra-complete-medal-sweep-in-weightlifting\/","title":{"rendered":"Khelo India School Games: Maharashtra complete medal sweep in weightlifting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>World Youth Championship silver medallist Jeremy Lalrinnunga set the benchmark in the weightlifting hall at the Khelo India School Games, winning the gold to lead Maharashtra to a medal sweep of the boys 62 kilogram category in New Delhi on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>Lalrinnunga, a Mizo lad who is representing Maharashtra, lifted 115 kg in snatch and 136 kg in clean and jerk for a total of 251 kg.<\/p>\n<p>Jacob Vanlaltluanga took silver with a total of 247 kg while Abhishek Nipane picked up the bronze medal.<\/p>\n<p>Both Jeremy and Jacob were representing Maharashtra as they are from the Army Sports Institute in Pune, but have grown up together in Mizoram capital Aizawl.<\/p>\n<p>Despite winning the gold, Jeremy was unhappy with his efforts as he failed to lift 140 kg in his last clean and jerk attempt.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wanted to lift more because I was testing myself,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that he was not planning to take part in the competition with his eyes set on the National Youth Championships set to take place later this month.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>World Youth Championship silver medallist Jeremy Lalrinnunga set the benchmark in the weightlifting hall at the Khelo India School Games, winning the gold to lead Maharashtra to a medal sweep of the boys 62 kilogram category in New Delhi on Tuesday. Lalrinnunga, a Mizo lad who is representing Maharashtra, lifted 115 kg in snatch and [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21186,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21187,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21185\/revisions\/21187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}