{"id":8325,"date":"2024-09-04T17:42:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-04T11:57:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=8325"},"modified":"2024-09-04T17:42:32","modified_gmt":"2024-09-04T11:57:32","slug":"kathmandu-metropolis-honours-palesha-for-her-first-historic-achievement-in-paralympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/kathmandu-metropolis-honours-palesha-for-her-first-historic-achievement-in-paralympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Kathmandu metropolis honours Palesha for her first historic achievement in Paralympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Kathmandu, Sept 4: The Kathmandu metropolis honored Palesha Govardhan, a para- taekwondo athlete who won the first historic bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, with a cash prize of 500 thousand.<\/p>\n<p>The local government organized a ceremony here today to honour the athlete for her historic achievement in the Paralympics.<\/p>\n<p>On the occasion held at the Metropolis office, Mayor Balen Shah presented a letter of appreciation and while Deputy Mayor Sunita Dangol handed over a check of the cash prize to the athlete.<br \/>\nMetropolitan City Office spokesperson Navin Manandhar, social committee coordinator Ramkumar KC, Taekwondo Association President Prakash Shamsher Rana, Olympian Sangina Baidya, and Palesha&#8217;s parents Panita and Pradeep Govardhan, among other sports officials and athletes were present on the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>Palesha had won the bronze medal in the Women&#8217;s K-44, under 57 kg weight category, last Friday in Paris, France.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu, Sept 4: The Kathmandu metropolis honored Palesha Govardhan, a para- taekwondo athlete who won the first historic bronze medal at the Paris 2024 Paralympics, with a cash prize of 500 thousand. The local government organized a ceremony here today to honour the athlete for her historic achievement in the Paralympics. On the occasion held [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8326,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8325","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\/8325"}],"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=8325"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8328,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8325\/revisions\/8328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}