{"id":8086,"date":"2024-08-31T11:14:20","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T05:29:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8086"},"modified":"2024-08-31T11:14:20","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T05:29:20","slug":"palesha-wins-historic-bronze-for-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/palesha-wins-historic-bronze-for-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Palesha wins historic bronze for Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Aug 31: Palesha Govardhan has won a historic bronze medal for Nepal in the Paris Paralympics 2024. In the women&#8217;s under Taekwondo 57 kg event under the K-44 category match held last night, Palesha defeated Serbia&#8217;s Marija Michev by 15-8 points to bring a coveted bronze medal for herself and the country.<\/p>\n<p>She has become the first Nepali athlete to win a medal in the Paralympics. In the first round match held yesterday, she had defeated Valeria Morales of Venezuela by 31-0 and made it to the quarterfinals. However, she lost to Brazil&#8217;s Silvana Fernandezong 10-8 in the quarterfinals.<br \/>\nAs she was defeated in the second round, she got another chance or repechage, in which she defeated host France&#8217;s Sefi Carvajnelle by 2-1.<\/p>\n<p>Palesha is also the first Nepali athlete to play in the Paralympics after passing the qualifying round.<br \/>\nNepal has started participating in the Paralympics since the 2004 Athens Para-Olympics. Palesha started playing taekwondo since the age of 10 and joined the Para national team in 2016. Since then she has participated and won medals in various international competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Aug 31: Palesha Govardhan has won a historic bronze medal for Nepal in the Paris Paralympics 2024. In the women&#8217;s under Taekwondo 57 kg event under the K-44 category match held last night, Palesha defeated Serbia&#8217;s Marija Michev by 15-8 points to bring a coveted bronze medal for herself and the country. She has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8087,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-main-news","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086"}],"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=8086"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8088,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8086\/revisions\/8088"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}