{"id":301921,"date":"2018-08-28T15:06:29","date_gmt":"2018-08-28T15:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=301921"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:14:43","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:14:43","slug":"asian-games-2018-india-bags-gold-and-silver-in-mens-800m-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-india-bags-gold-and-silver-in-mens-800m-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: India bags Gold and Silver in Men&#8217;s 800m 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-301922 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/athletic-800-m-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"686\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/athletic-800-m-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/athletic-800-m-768x370.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/athletic-800-m-696x335.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/athletic-800-m.jpg 852w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 686px) 100vw, 686px\" \/>Indian sprinter\u00a0Manjit Singh on Tuesday won the Gold medal in men\u2019s 800m race, while Jinson Johnson won the silver medal in the same event 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;\">Manjit bagged the gold with a timing of 1:45.16 while Jinson clocked 1:46.35 to bag the silver for India. Abubaker Abdalla of Qatar won the bronze with a timing of 1:46.38.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congratulating Manjit and Jinson for their performance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, \u201cWe will remember the #AsianGames2018 for the encouraging performance in various track events. India is overjoyed about Manjit Singh winning the Gold in the Men\u2019s 800m Final.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations to Jinson Johnson for bagging the Silver Medal in the Men\u2019s 800m Final. His success is remarkable and inspiring,\u201d PM said in another tweet.<\/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 now stands at 50 with nine gold, nineteen silver, and twenty-two bronze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian sprinter\u00a0Manjit Singh on Tuesday won the Gold medal in men\u2019s 800m race, while Jinson Johnson won the silver medal in the same event in the ongoing\u00a0Asian Games at Jakarta. Manjit bagged the gold with a timing of 1:45.16 while Jinson clocked 1:46.35 to bag the silver for India. Abubaker Abdalla of Qatar won the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":301922,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4297,4397,3490,4457,4455,4456,316,4399],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301921"}],"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=301921"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301923,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301921\/revisions\/301923"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/301922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}