{"id":22536,"date":"2021-06-29T21:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=118108"},"modified":"2021-06-29T21:59:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-29T16:29:00","slug":"indian-golfer-aditi-ashok-makes-history-by-qualifying-for-tokyo-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/olympics\/indian-golfer-aditi-ashok-makes-history-by-qualifying-for-tokyo-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Indian Golfer Aditi Ashok makes history by qualifying for Tokyo Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aditi Ashok, a star Indian golfer qualified for the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, making history as the first female Indian golfer to do so.<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the final Olympic rankings were published marking a watershed moment in Olympic history. She finished 45th in the qualifying round and will now compete in her second Olympics.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Many congratulations to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aditigolf?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@aditigolf<\/a> for becoming the 1st female Indian golfer to qualify for <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> after the final Olympic rankings were released today. <\/p>\n<p>She qualified in 45th place and is going to be playing her 2nd Olympics.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Cheer4India?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Cheer4India<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/lkpiaUPZ4p\">pic.twitter.com\/lkpiaUPZ4p<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAI Media (@Media_SAI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_SAI\/status\/1409872177856335873?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Aditi Ashok expressed her gratitude for the opportunity to represent India at the Olympic Games once again.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I still think of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Rio2016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Rio2016<\/a> like it was only yesterday. To have the honour of playing for India @OlympicGolf <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Tokyo2020?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@Tokyo2020<\/a> is beyond exciting. I\u2019m privileged to have the opportunity to represent my country & my sport at the games again.<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Tokyo2020?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Tokyo2020<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/OlympicGolf?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#OlympicGolf<\/a><br \/>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3\u26f3\ufe0f\ud83c\udfcc\ud83c\udffb\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<br \/>\ud83d\udcf8 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GettyImages?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@GettyImages<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rVN0Tu1ckD\">pic.twitter.com\/rVN0Tu1ckD<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Aditi Ashok (@aditigolf) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/aditigolf\/status\/1409870467700342795?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">June 29, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Anirban Lahiri, an ace Indian golfer qualified for his second successive Olympics earlier this month after finishing as the best-placed Indian golfer in the final Tokyo Games Rankings.\u00a0<span style=\"text-transform: initial\">On Twitter, Lahiri expressed his delight, saying, \u201cThis is the finest surprise I\u2019ve got in a long time.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The 33-year-old took the last remaining slot in the Games rankings coming in 60th place. World No 1 and US Open champion Jon Rahm leads the rankings. <span style=\"text-transform: initial\">This Tokyo Olympics will begin on July 23 and will go through August 8.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aditi Ashok, a star Indian golfer qualified for the Tokyo Olympics on Tuesday, making history as the first female Indian\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":180,"featured_media":42723,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[2000,2001,1494,389,638],"class_list":["post-22536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-olympics","tag-aditi-ashok","tag-anirban-lahiri","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-tokyo-olympics"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/180"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}