{"id":237,"date":"2021-08-17T20:05:23","date_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:35:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=138811"},"modified":"2021-08-17T20:11:22","modified_gmt":"2021-08-17T14:41:22","slug":"union-sports-minister-anurag-thakur-congratulates-world-youth-archery-championship-winners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/union-sports-minister-anurag-thakur-congratulates-world-youth-archery-championship-winners\/","title":{"rendered":"Union Sports Minister Anurag Thakur praises World Youth Archery Championship winners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Union Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur has met and interacted with the World Youth Archery Championship winners. He congratulated them for making the entire country proud as Team India registered a total of 15 medals at the Archery Championship in Poland. The medal counting stands as \u2013 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">8 gold, 2 silver, and 5 bronze.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anurag Thakur praised the already existing talent that the country has at the grassroots level. \u201cThe initiatives taken under the vision of Prime Minister Narendra Modi to develop schemes such as the Khelo India to develop and nurture the grassroots level talent are showing results in Championships like this,\u201d said Anurag Thakur to ANI.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Hon'ble Minister of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YASMinistry?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@YASMinistry<\/a> Sh. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianuragthakur?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@ianuragthakur<\/a> interacted with medalists of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/WorldArcheryYouthChampionships2021?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#WorldArcheryYouthChampionships2021<\/a><br \/>\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3 registered a total of 15\ud83c\udfc5- 8\ud83e\udd472 \ud83e\udd48 5\ud83e\udd49 <br \/>Hon'ble Minister congratulated them for bringing laurels to the nation & praised diversity & talent pool at youth level <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/pClxyN0nzm\">pic.twitter.com\/pClxyN0nzm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SAI Media (@Media_SAI) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Media_SAI\/status\/1427610569528406023?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 17, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The gold medalists included the Cadet Compound Women\u2019s Team, the Cadet Compound Men\u2019s Team, the Junior Recurve Men\u2019s Team, the Cadet Recurve Mixed Team, the Junior Recurve Mixed Team,\u00a0 the Cadet Recurve Men\u2019s Team, the Cadet Compound Men\u2019s Team, and Komolika Bari, who won the gold in the Junior Recurve Women\u2019s Individual event.<\/p>\n<p>Komolika Bari who won two gold medals in the individual and mixed doubles events had also won the coveted medal at the 2019 World Cadet Championships. Komalika who is a TATA Academy product became the National Champion in the Women\u2019s Individual Recurve at the 41st NTPC Junior Archery National Championship that was held in Dehradun earlier this year in March.<\/p>\n<p>The silver medalists include Sakshi Chaudhary from the Compound Junior Individual event and Priya Gurjar who was victorious in the Cadet Compound Individual Event.<\/p>\n<p>The bronze medalists Rishabh Yadav in the Compound Junior Individual event, Manjiri Manoj, Parneet Kaur in the Compound Cadet Women\u2019s category, and Bishal Changmai in the Recurve Cadet Individual event while also claiming a bronze in the Cadet Recurve Women\u2019s Team.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Wroclaw 2021 World Archery Youth Championships<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations to Team\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3India on a spellbinding performance!<\/p>\n<p>\ud83e\udd47GOLD 8<br \/>\ud83e\udd48SILVER 2<br \/>\ud83e\udd49BRONZE 5 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/HknZECeGfh\">pic.twitter.com\/HknZECeGfh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Anurag Thakur (@ianuragthakur) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ianuragthakur\/status\/1426946928516894722?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 15, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Union Sports Minister Anurag Singh Thakur interacted and congratulated the World Youth Archery Championship winners for their outstanding display in Poland.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":437,"featured_media":23380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[1928,1876,1875,1201],"class_list":["post-237","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-indian-archery","tag-indian-archery-men","tag-indian-archery-women","tag-team-india"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237","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\/437"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}