{"id":27224,"date":"2018-04-07T12:09:21","date_gmt":"2018-04-07T12:09:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/punjabnews24.com\/?p=27224"},"modified":"2018-04-07T12:09:21","modified_gmt":"2018-04-07T12:09:21","slug":"haryana-boy-youngest-indian-weightlifter-to-win-medal-at-cwg-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/haryana-boy-youngest-indian-weightlifter-to-win-medal-at-cwg-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Haryana boy youngest Indian weightlifter to win medal at CWG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold Coast,<br \/>\nTeenager Deepak Lather on Friday became the youngest Indian weightlifter to claim a Commonwealth Games medal, clinching a bronze in the men\u2019s 69kg category here.<\/p>\n<p>The 18-year-old from Haryana lifted a total of 295kg (136kg+159kg) to finish third after his nearest rival, Vaipava Loane, fouled his last two lifts to end with a total of 292kg.<\/p>\n<p>The youngster, competing in his maiden Commonwealth Games, holds the distinction of being the youngest to hold the national record as well.<\/p>\n<p>He held the 62kg category national record at 15.<\/p>\n<p>He trained at the Army Sports Institute as a diver before being pushed into weightlifting by the coaches there.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Mirabai Chanu (48kg) and Sanjita Chanu (53kg) won gold medals in the women\u2019s competition and P Gururaja claimed silver in the men\u2019s 56kg category.<\/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>Gold Coast, Teenager Deepak Lather on Friday became the youngest Indian weightlifter to claim a Commonwealth Games medal, clinching a bronze in the men\u2019s 69kg category here. The 18-year-old from Haryana lifted a total of 295kg (136kg+159kg) to finish third after his nearest rival, Vaipava Loane, fouled his last two lifts to end with a [&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":27225,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27224","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\/27224","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=27224"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27226,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27224\/revisions\/27226"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}