{"id":301736,"date":"2018-08-22T11:01:33","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:01:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301736"},"modified":"2018-08-22T11:01:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T11:01:33","slug":"asian-games-2018-rahi-sarnobat-wins-gold-in-25m-pistol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-rahi-sarnobat-wins-gold-in-25m-pistol\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: Rahi Sarnobat wins Gold in 25m pistol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-301737 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/rahi-sarnobat-300x219.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"553\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rahi-sarnobat-300x219.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rahi-sarnobat-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/rahi-sarnobat-667x486.jpg 667w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">India\u2019s Rahi Sarnobat on Wednesday won the gold medal in the finals of the 25m pistol competition at the Asian Games\u00a0in Jakarta.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The 27-year-old became the first Indian woman shooter to win an Asian Games gold medal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Naphaswan Yangpaiboon of Thailand came second to bag silver medal after being beaten in the shoot off.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Both Rahi Sarnobat and Yangpaiboon Naphaswan \u00a0had finished with a score of 34.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the first shoot off,\u00a0both Rahi and Yangpaiboon shot four out of five shots, in the second shoot-off the Indian triumphed over her opponent by missing one less.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India now have won four gold medals.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Rahi Sarnobat on Wednesday won the gold medal in the finals of the 25m pistol competition at the Asian Games\u00a0in Jakarta. The 27-year-old became the first Indian woman shooter to win an Asian Games gold medal. Naphaswan Yangpaiboon of Thailand came second to bag silver medal after being beaten in the shoot off. Both [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301737,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4347,4297,4287,4346],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301736"}],"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=301736"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301736\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301738,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301736\/revisions\/301738"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}