{"id":8017,"date":"2024-08-29T21:52:27","date_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8017"},"modified":"2024-08-29T21:52:27","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T16:07:27","slug":"bharat-falters-in-paris-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/bharat-falters-in-paris-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bharat falters in Paris Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug 29: Bharat Singh Mahat was defeated today in the K-44 category of taekwondo U-58 kg under Paris Paralympics-2024.<\/p>\n<p>In the Round of 16 match held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, Bharat lost to Japan&#8217;s Mitsuya Tanaka by 19-3 points. Tanaka is ranked fifth in the world while Bharat is ranked 57th in the world ranking list.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, medal hopeful Palesha Gobardhan will be competing tomorrow in the women&#8217;s U-57 kg weight group under the same K-44 category.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Bharat and Palesha, three athletes from Nepal are participating in the Paralympics. Swimmer Bhim Bahadur Kumal is competing in men&#8217;s 50m freestyle of S9 category. Bharat and Bhim were selected for the Paralympics through wild card entry while Palesha booked a ticket to Paris after successfully qualifying through the selection stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug 29: Bharat Singh Mahat was defeated today in the K-44 category of taekwondo U-58 kg under Paris Paralympics-2024. In the Round of 16 match held at the Grand Palais in Paris, France, Bharat lost to Japan&#8217;s Mitsuya Tanaka by 19-3 points. Tanaka is ranked fifth in the world while Bharat is ranked 57th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8018,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8017","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\/8017"}],"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=8017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8019,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8017\/revisions\/8019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8018"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}