{"id":301880,"date":"2018-08-27T15:21:37","date_gmt":"2018-08-27T15:21:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301880"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:12:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:12:41","slug":"asian-games-2018-neeraj-chopra-wins-gold-in-javelin-throw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-neeraj-chopra-wins-gold-in-javelin-throw\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: Neeraj Chopra wins gold in Javelin throw"},"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-301881 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/neeraj-chopra-300x221.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"587\" height=\"432\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/neeraj-chopra-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/neeraj-chopra-768x566.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/neeraj-chopra-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/neeraj-chopra-696x513.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/neeraj-chopra-570x420.jpg 570w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/neeraj-chopra.jpg 802w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/>Indian ace athlete Neeraj Chopra on Sunday won the gold medal in Men\u2019s Javelin Throw Final 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;\">Neeraj won the Gold in men\u2019s\u00a0javelin throw event with a throw of 88.06m breaking the national record while Qizhen Liu of China won the silver with a throw of 82.22m. Arshad Nadeem of Pakistan won the bronze with a throw of 80.75m.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">This is the eighth 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 Neeraj and tweeted, \u201cWhen @Neeraj_chopra1 is on the field, expect the very best from him. This youngster makes India happier by winning a Gold in the Men\u2019s Javelin Throw Final. We also congratulate him for setting a new national record.\u201d<\/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 41 with eight gold, thirteen silver, and twenty bronze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian ace athlete Neeraj Chopra on Sunday won the gold medal in Men\u2019s Javelin Throw Final in the ongoing\u00a0Asian Games at Jakarta. Neeraj won the Gold in men\u2019s\u00a0javelin throw event with a throw of 88.06m breaking the national record while Qizhen Liu of China won the silver with a throw of 82.22m. Arshad Nadeem of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":301881,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4297,4397,4287,4421,4422],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301880"}],"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\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301882,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301880\/revisions\/301882"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}