{"id":5452,"date":"2024-07-18T21:35:41","date_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:50:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=5452"},"modified":"2024-07-18T21:35:41","modified_gmt":"2024-07-18T15:50:41","slug":"8th-south-asian-karate-championship-nepal-wins-8-gold-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/8th-south-asian-karate-championship-nepal-wins-8-gold-medals\/","title":{"rendered":"8th South Asian Karate Championship: Nepal wins 8 gold medals"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, July 18: Nepal won eight gold medals in the South Asian Karate Championship that kicked off on Thursday in Thimphu, Bhutan.<\/p>\n<p>Alisa Raskoti Magar under the senior women&#8217;s category and Swornim Manandhar under the men&#8217;s category won the gold medals for Nepal on the first day of the championship. Likewise, Sanju Deshar in the women&#8217;s under-21 and Rehan Jawed in the men&#8217;s category also won the gold medals.<br \/>\nBoth Alisa and Swornin defeated India in the finals.<\/p>\n<p>Likewise, Sanju defeated Bhusal to win the gold medal while Rehan routed India.<br \/>\nSimilarly, Nepal&#8217;s Amrit Thokar was defeated by the Indian player in the junior men&#8217;s category, while Renisha Rimal lost to the Sri Lankan player in the final to win the silver medal.<br \/>\nAccording to Nepal Karate Federation, Nepal won gold medals in the senior women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s category and junior women&#8217;s and men&#8217;s category as well.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Thursday, Bhutan&#8217;s Prince Jigyel Ugyen Wangchuck marked the opening of the championship where more than 200 karatekas and 4,000 plus officials from Nepal, Bhutan, India and Sri Lanka are taking part.<\/p>\n<p>The participants will compete in different weight categories in cadet, junior, under-21, and senior divisions during the two-day tournament.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, July 18: Nepal won eight gold medals in the South Asian Karate Championship that kicked off on Thursday in Thimphu, Bhutan. Alisa Raskoti Magar under the senior women&#8217;s category and Swornim Manandhar under the men&#8217;s category won the gold medals for Nepal on the first day of the championship. Likewise, Sanju Deshar in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5453,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5452","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5452"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5454,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5452\/revisions\/5454"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5452"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5452"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5452"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}