{"id":55431,"date":"2026-09-23T13:34:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:49:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=55431"},"modified":"2026-09-23T13:34:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T07:49:13","slug":"20th-asian-games-sherpa-wins-first-medal-for-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/20th-asian-games-sherpa-wins-first-medal-for-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"20th Asian Games: Sherpa wins first medal for Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 23: Tenzing Sherpa has won the first medal for Nepal in karate in the 20th Asian Games taking place in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>This is Sherpa&#8217;s first medal in the 20th Asian Games though he had competed in different categories. In today&#8217;s match held at Toyahashi Gymnasium in Japan, Karate player Sherpa won bronze medal in the Men&#8217;s Kumite in the over 84-kg category.<\/p>\n<p>He defeated Laos&#8217;s player Vathana 9-1 and won the bronze medal. Earlier, Sherpa lost 5-0 to Iran&#8217;s player Muhammad Nemati in the semi-final.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 23: Tenzing Sherpa has won the first medal for Nepal in karate in the 20th Asian Games taking place in Japan. This is Sherpa&#8217;s first medal in the 20th Asian Games though he had competed in different categories. In today&#8217;s match held at Toyahashi Gymnasium in Japan, Karate player Sherpa won bronze medal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":55432,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-55431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-national","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55431"}],"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=55431"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55433,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55431\/revisions\/55433"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/55432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}