{"id":337152,"date":"2022-04-18T03:32:11","date_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=337152"},"modified":"2022-04-18T03:32:11","modified_gmt":"2022-04-18T09:02:11","slug":"r-madhavan-overwhelmed-after-son-vedaant-bags-gold-medal-at-danish-open-swimming-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/r-madhavan-overwhelmed-after-son-vedaant-bags-gold-medal-at-danish-open-swimming-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"R Madhavan \u2018overwhelmed\u2019 after son Vedaant bags gold medal at Danish Open swimming meet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Mumbai :\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong>Actor R Madhavan says he is \u201coverwhelmed and humbled\u201d with his son Vedaant\u2019s winning streak after he scored his second medal, a gold, in swimming at the Danish Open in Copenhagen.<br \/>\nThe 16-year-old bagged gold in the men\u2019s 800m freestyle and bettered his personal best time by a whopping 11:48 to stop the clock at 8:17.28, edging past local swimmer Alexander L Bjorn by 0.10 to stand atop the podium on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Madhavan took to Instagram and posted a video of his son from the ceremony.<br \/>\n\u201cToday it\u2019s a Gold in 800m for @vedaantmadhavan. Overwhelmed and humbled. Thank you Coach @bacpradeep sir @swimmingfederation.in @ansadxb and the entire team,\u201d the 51-year-old actor wrote.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Vedaant had won the silver medal in the 1500m freestyle event, before bettering his 200m freestyle time to finish 12th overall in the event. The Danish Open concludes on April 19.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mumbai :\u00a0\u00a0Actor R Madhavan says he is \u201coverwhelmed and humbled\u201d with his son Vedaant\u2019s winning streak after he scored his second medal, a gold, in swimming at the Danish Open in Copenhagen. The 16-year-old bagged gold in the men\u2019s 800m freestyle and bettered his personal best time by a whopping 11:48 to stop the clock [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":337153,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[36],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337152"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337152"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337152\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337154,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337152\/revisions\/337154"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/337153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}