{"id":499,"date":"2023-09-30T12:08:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-30T06:38:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/?p=358262"},"modified":"2023-09-30T12:08:32","modified_gmt":"2023-09-30T06:38:32","slug":"asian-games-2023-kiran-baliyan-breaks-indias-72-year-wait-claims-womens-shot-put-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/other-sports\/asian-games-2023-kiran-baliyan-breaks-indias-72-year-wait-claims-womens-shot-put-medal\/","title":{"rendered":"Asian Games 2023: Kiran Baliyan breaks India\u2019s 72 year wait, claims women\u2019s shot put medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"color: #252525\">Kiran Baliyan makes India proud by ending the 72-year wait and bringing home a medal in the women\u2019s shot put event at the 2023 Asian Games. Baliyan stood third, just behind the Chinese duo and Olympic champions Lijiao Gong and Jiayuan Song.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">She covered a distance of 17.36 meters in her third throw attempt. She, along with the Chinese winners, were the only three athletes to cross the 17-meter mark. Lijiao Gong threw a stunning 19.58m to claim her gold on Friday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">What makes Kiran Baliyan\u2019s victory astonishing for everyone is that she took the sport accidentally and was not at all serious about it for a couple of years. It was a spectacular sight to see her surpass her senior Manpreet Kaur\u2019s best effort of 16.25 meters.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">\u201cI did not come here thinking I would create history or win. In fact, I did not even know of this record or such a long gap until now. I only wanted to give my best performance. I knew I was in a good position when I saw the start list yesterday. I am not very happy with my performance; this is not my best, but for getting a medal for the country and for athletics on the first day itself, I am satisfied,\u201d Baliyan said after her win.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p style=\"color: #252525\">This is a proud moment for India that we have made the breakthrough after 72 years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kiran Baliyan makes India proud by ending the 72-year wait and bringing home a medal in the women\u2019s shot put\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":300,"featured_media":23638,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[3680],"class_list":["post-499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-sports","tag-asian-games-2023"],"reading_time":"2 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499","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\/300"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=499"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/499\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=499"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=499"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=499"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}