{"id":301843,"date":"2018-08-26T15:17:55","date_gmt":"2018-08-26T15:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301843"},"modified":"2018-08-26T19:49:45","modified_gmt":"2018-08-26T19:49:45","slug":"asian-games-2018-dutee-chand-win-silver-in-womens-100-m-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-dutee-chand-win-silver-in-womens-100-m-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: Dutee Chand win silver in Women&#8217;s 100 m race"},"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-301844 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/dutee-chand-300x267.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"571\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/dutee-chand-300x267.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/dutee-chand-768x684.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/dutee-chand-696x620.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/dutee-chand-471x420.jpg 471w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/dutee-chand.jpg 790w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/>Indian Sprinter Dutee Chand\u00a0on Sunday won a silver medal in\u00a0Women&#8217;s 100 m race in the ongoing\u00a0Asian Games at Jakarta.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Dutee finished second on the podium in women\u2019s\u00a0100m event with a timing of 11.32 seconds while Edidiong Odiong of Bahrain won gold with a timing of 11.30 seconds. Yongli Wei of China won the bronze with a timing of 11.33 seconds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the fourth medal in Athletics for India.<\/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 Dutee and tweeted, &#8220;Seems like a great run for our runners in the #AsianGames2018. The phenomenally talented Dutee Chand wins a Silver in the Women&#8217;s 100 m event. Well done!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Union Sports Minister\u00a0Rajyavardhan Rathore in a tweet said, &#8220;What a day for India in athletics! In a Magnificent run, India\u2019s Dutee Chand won SILVER medal in Women&#8217;s 100 m with a timing of 11.32sec. KUDOS to you Champion!&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India\u2019s total medal tally at the Asian games 2018 stands at 36 with seven gold, ten silver, and nineteen bronze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian Sprinter Dutee Chand\u00a0on Sunday won a silver medal in\u00a0Women&#8217;s 100 m race in the ongoing\u00a0Asian Games at Jakarta. Dutee finished second on the podium in women\u2019s\u00a0100m event with a timing of 11.32 seconds while Edidiong Odiong of Bahrain won gold with a timing of 11.30 seconds. Yongli Wei of China won the bronze with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":301844,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4397,4402,4399,4403],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301843"}],"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=301843"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301843\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301847,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301843\/revisions\/301847"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}