{"id":284672,"date":"2018-01-10T13:25:02","date_gmt":"2018-01-10T07:55:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/?p=284672"},"modified":"2018-01-10T13:25:02","modified_gmt":"2018-01-10T07:55:02","slug":"aanchal-thakur-becomes-first-indian-to-win-an-international-medal-in-skiing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/aanchal-thakur-becomes-first-indian-to-win-an-international-medal-in-skiing\/","title":{"rendered":"Aanchal Thakur becomes first Indian to win an international medal in skiing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Anchal-Thakur.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-284673 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/Anchal-Thakur-294x300.jpg\" alt=\"Anchal Thakur\" width=\"294\" height=\"300\" data-id=\"284673\" \/><\/a>Anchal Thakur from Manali has become the first Indian to clinch the international medal in skiing.\u00a0 The 21-year-old\u00a0won a Bronze medal in the coveted Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup in the slalom race category. The competition was organised by Federation International de Ski (FIS) at the Palandoken Ski Centre, in Erzurum in Turkey.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sports minister Rajyavardhan Rathore took to Twitter to congratulate Aanchal, &#8220;Congrats Aanchal Thakur for the Slalom Skiing Bronze in the FIS International Skiing Competition in Turkey. India opens account by a first ever medal in skiing. Well done!&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anchal Thakur from Manali has become the first Indian to clinch the international medal in skiing.\u00a0 The 21-year-old\u00a0won a Bronze medal in the coveted Alpine Ejder 3200 Cup in the slalom race category. The competition was organised by Federation International de Ski (FIS) at the Palandoken Ski Centre, in Erzurum in Turkey. Sports minister Rajyavardhan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284673,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,31,39],"tags":[157,158,159,160,161,162],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284672"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}