{"id":12966,"date":"2021-12-09T16:32:20","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:02:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper?p=12966"},"modified":"2021-12-09T16:32:20","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T11:02:20","slug":"commonwealth-weightlifting-championships-odishas-jhilli-dalabehera-makes-nation-proud-with-silver-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/2021\/12\/09\/commonwealth-weightlifting-championships-odishas-jhilli-dalabehera-makes-nation-proud-with-silver-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships: Odisha\u2019s Jhilli Dalabehera Makes Nation Proud with Silver Medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Jhilli Dalabehera won a silver medal in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which is being held alongside the World Championships.<\/p>\n<p>Jhilli, the 22-year weightlifter from Odisha&#8217;s tribal Mayurbhanj district, finished second in the women&#8217;s 49 kg, the same weight class in which Mirabai Chanu won silver in Tokyo Olympics Games. Mirabai is not participating in this event as she is on a break.<\/p>\n<p>Jhilli, who is an Asian champion and a bronze medallist in the World junior in 45kg but has moved up to 49kg as 45kg is not a recognised Olympic discipline, came up with the best effort of 73kg in snatch and 94 kg in clean and jerk for a total of 167kg &#8212; her personal best in this class.<\/p>\n<p>She finished second in the Commonwealth nations, behind Nigeria&#8217;s Peter Stella Kingsley, who lifted 168kg (72 + 96).<\/p>\n<p>Though the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship is a qualifying event for next year&#8217;s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Jhilli could clinch her berth on Thursday as only the gold medallists at Tashkent make the grade.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>India&#8217;s Jhilli Dalabehera won a silver medal in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which is being held alongside the World Championships. Jhilli, the 22-year weightlifter from Odisha&#8217;s tribal Mayurbhanj district, finished second in the women&#8217;s 49 kg, the same weight class in which Mirabai Chanu won silver in Tokyo Olympics Games. Mirabai is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-main-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12967,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12966\/revisions\/12967"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demo.testctsl.in\/indiafirstepaper\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}