{"id":300182,"date":"2018-07-08T19:02:02","date_gmt":"2018-07-08T19:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=300182"},"modified":"2018-07-08T19:02:02","modified_gmt":"2018-07-08T19:02:02","slug":"dipa-wins-gold-in-gymnastics-world-challenge-cup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/dipa-wins-gold-in-gymnastics-world-challenge-cup\/","title":{"rendered":"Dipa wins gold in Gymnastics World Challenge Cup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300183 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/dipa-300x191.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"669\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/dipa-300x191.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/dipa-768x489.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/dipa-1024x652.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/dipa-696x443.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/dipa-659x420.jpg 659w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/dipa.jpg 1041w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 669px) 100vw, 669px\" \/>India\u2019s ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar on Sunday clinched the gold medal in the vault event of FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dipa, scored 14.150 to win gold and her first medal in world challenge cup. She had also topped the qualification round with a score of 13.400.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dipa, has also qualified in balance beam finals by finishing third in the qualification with a score of 11.850.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dipa had suffered an Anetrior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury and had undergone surgery after 2016 Rio Olympics, where she finished fourth in vault event.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Dipa and lauded her for being an example of\u00a0tenacity and never-say-die attitude. &#8220;India is proud of @DipaKarmakar! Congratulations to her on winning a well-deserved Gold in the vault event at the FIG World Challenge Cup in Mersin, Turkey. This win is a prime example of her tenacity and never-say-die attitude,&#8221; PM Modi tweeted.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-300184 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/pm-modi-tweet-300x142.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"658\" height=\"311\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/pm-modi-tweet-300x142.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/pm-modi-tweet-768x362.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/pm-modi-tweet-696x328.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/pm-modi-tweet-890x420.jpg 890w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/07\/pm-modi-tweet.jpg 907w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 658px) 100vw, 658px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s ace gymnast Dipa Karmakar on Sunday clinched the gold medal in the vault event of FIG Artistic Gymnastics World Challenge Cup at Mersin, Turkey. Dipa, scored 14.150 to win gold and her first medal in world challenge cup. She had also topped the qualification round with a score of 13.400. Dipa, has also qualified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":300183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[3485,3487,3490,3488,1277,3489,3486],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300182"}],"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=300182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":300185,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/300182\/revisions\/300185"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/300183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=300182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=300182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=300182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}