{"id":306012,"date":"2018-11-23T16:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306012"},"modified":"2018-11-23T16:43:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-23T16:43:53","slug":"boxer-sonia-chahal-enters-final-of-world-championships-simranjit-kaur-settles-for-bronze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/boxer-sonia-chahal-enters-final-of-world-championships-simranjit-kaur-settles-for-bronze\/","title":{"rendered":"Boxer Sonia Chahal enters final of World Championships; Simranjit Kaur settles for bronze"},"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-306013 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/boxer-sonia-300x144.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"583\" height=\"280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/boxer-sonia-300x144.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/boxer-sonia-696x334.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/boxer-sonia.jpg 750w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">India\u2019s Sonia Chahal became the second Indian boxer to enter the final of the\u00a0AIBA Women&#8217;s World Championships\u00a0by beating Jo Son Hwa of North Korea on Friday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">In the 57 kg weight category semi-final, Sonia defeated Jo Son 5:0 with a unanimous verdict from all the judges.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sonia after winning the semi-final said that she had never imagined that she will reach the final. She is happy to be in the world Championships final.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Mary Kom was the other Indian boxer to enter the final, winning her 48 kg by unanimous decision on Thursday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Sonia will now face Ornella Gabriele Wahner of Germany in the final on November 24.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">However, another Worlds debutant Simranjit Kaur had to settle for bronze medal as she lost her semi-final bout in the 64kg weight category to China&#8217;s Dou Dan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India\u2019s Sonia Chahal became the second Indian boxer to enter the final of the\u00a0AIBA Women&#8217;s World Championships\u00a0by beating Jo Son Hwa of North Korea on Friday. In the 57 kg weight category semi-final, Sonia defeated Jo Son 5:0 with a unanimous verdict from all the judges. Sonia after winning the semi-final said that she had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[31],"tags":[9851,9852,9853,9854,9850],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306012"}],"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=306012"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306012\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306015,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306012\/revisions\/306015"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}