{"id":302012,"date":"2018-08-31T06:37:35","date_gmt":"2018-08-31T06:37:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=302012"},"modified":"2019-09-07T08:48:41","modified_gmt":"2019-09-07T08:48:41","slug":"asian-games-2018-india-wins-gold-in-mens-1500-m-and-womens-4x400-m-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/asian-games-2018-india-wins-gold-in-mens-1500-m-and-womens-4x400-m-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2018: India wins Gold in Men\u2019s 1500 m and Women\u2019s 4&#215;400 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-302013 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/athletics-gold-300x153.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"698\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/athletics-gold-300x153.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/08\/athletics-gold.jpg 684w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/>Indian sprinter\u00a0Jinson Johnson on Thursday won the Gold medal in men\u2019s 1500 m race, while Indian Women\u2019s team won the Gold medal in the 4&#215;400 m women\u2019s relay 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;\">Jinson bagged the gold with a timing of 3:44.72 while Indian Women\u2019s team clocked 3:28.72 to bag the Gold for India.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Congratulating Jinson and Indian Women\u2019s team for their performance, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, \u201cTake a bow, Jinson Johnson! A phenomenal athlete brings home a Gold in the men\u2019s 1500m race. Delighted and proud!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cCongratulations to our team for winning the Gold in the Women&#8217;s 4&#215;400 m. This victory enhances the joy and pride of the entire nation,\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 59 with thirteen gold, twenty-one silver, and twenty-five bronze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indian sprinter\u00a0Jinson Johnson on Thursday won the Gold medal in men\u2019s 1500 m race, while Indian Women\u2019s team won the Gold medal in the 4&#215;400 m women\u2019s relay event in the ongoing\u00a0Asian Games at Jakarta. Jinson bagged the gold with a timing of 3:44.72 while Indian Women\u2019s team clocked 3:28.72 to bag the Gold for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":302013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[4522,4397,3490,4287,4457,4521],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302012"}],"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=302012"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":302014,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302012\/revisions\/302014"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/302013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}