{"id":59538,"date":"2019-04-20T11:45:16","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T11:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/?p=59538"},"modified":"2019-04-20T11:45:17","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T11:45:17","slug":"asian-weightlifting-championship-mirabai-chanu-to-spearhead-indias-campaign","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/asian-weightlifting-championship-mirabai-chanu-to-spearhead-indias-campaign\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Weightlifting Championship Mirabai Chanu to spearhead India&#8217;s campaign"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Former  World Champion, Mirabai Chanu will spearhead India\u2019s challenge at the  Asian Weightlifting Championship, 2019 that begins at Ningbo, China on  Saturday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Chanu will be competing in the 49kg category from 48kg \nfollowing the International Weightlifting Federations\u2019s rejig of weight \ncategories. She has made a strong comeback after having suffered a \nlower-back injury that kept her out of action for nearly nine months.&nbsp; \nShe will have potent competitors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Among male weightlifters, \nIndia\u2019s hopes will be on Jeremy Lalrinnunga, the gold medallist at the \nYouth Olympic Games. Commonwealth Games champion, Sathish Sivalingam has\n pulled out owing to performance troubles. Other Indians participating \ninclude Vikas Thakur, the silver medallist at the Commonwealth Games, \nand Ajay Singh, the bronze medallist at the Asian Youth Championship and\n the Junior Weightlifting Championship. Ajay had finished fifth in the \n77kg category at the Asian Games in 2018. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nine days of \ncompetition will be played out at Ningbo Youngor Gymnasium commencing \nfrom Saturday. Medals will be won across 20 categories, 10 for men and \n10 for women.\n\n<\/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>Former World Champion, Mirabai Chanu will spearhead India\u2019s challenge at the Asian Weightlifting Championship, 2019 that begins at Ningbo, China on Saturday. Chanu will be competing in the 49kg category from 48kg following the International Weightlifting Federations\u2019s rejig of weight categories. She has made a strong comeback after having suffered a lower-back injury that kept [&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":59539,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[122],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59538","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\/59538","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=59538"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59540,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59538\/revisions\/59540"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blastingskyhawk.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}