{"id":301663,"date":"2018-08-20T14:02:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-20T14:02:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301663"},"modified":"2018-08-21T05:54:52","modified_gmt":"2018-08-21T05:54:52","slug":"asian-games-2018-vinesh-phogat-wins-gold-in-50-kg-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-vinesh-phogat-wins-gold-in-50-kg-wrestling\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: Vinesh Phogat wins gold in 50 Kg wrestling"},"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-301664 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/phogat-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"599\" height=\"431\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/phogat-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/phogat-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/phogat-1024x737.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/phogat-696x501.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/phogat-584x420.jpg 584w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/phogat.jpg 1067w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 599px) 100vw, 599px\" \/>Vinesh Phogat on Monday won the gold medal in Wrestling at Asian games after she beat Japan&#8217;s Yuki Irie 6-2 in the 50-kilogram category.<\/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 Vinesh Phogat on her victory and said her success will surely inspire upcoming athletics.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cAnother tournament, another medal! India rejoices in the victory of\u00a0@ Phogat Vinesh. Congratulations to her on winning the Gold in the 50Kg wrestling event at the @asiangames2018. Vinesh&#8217;s repeated success will surely inspire upcoming athletes\u201d, tweeted by Modi.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Many Bollywood celebrities congratulated Vinesh Phogat on her tremendous victory.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bollywood actor Amitabh Bachchan said that \u201che is proud of Indian women and Vinesh Phogat\u2019s victory has elevated that pride\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar also congratulated Vinesh Phogat.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations Golden Girl,\u00a0@ Phogat Vinesh for creating history by becoming the first Indian woman wrestler to win a gold medal at the Asian Games! More power to you,&#8221; tweeted <\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Akshay Kumar.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vinesh Phogat on Monday won the gold medal in Wrestling at Asian games after she beat Japan&#8217;s Yuki Irie 6-2 in the 50-kilogram category. Prime Minister Narendra Modi congratulated Vinesh Phogat on her victory and said her success will surely inspire upcoming athletics. \u201cAnother tournament, another medal! India rejoices in the victory of\u00a0@ Phogat Vinesh. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301664,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4297,3490,4296,4298],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301663"}],"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\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301663"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301665,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301663\/revisions\/301665"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}