{"id":107775,"date":"2022-05-06T12:25:27","date_gmt":"2022-05-06T06:55:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=107775"},"modified":"2022-09-05T11:08:19","modified_gmt":"2022-09-05T05:38:19","slug":"harshada-sharad-garud-becomes-the-1st-indian-to-win-gold-medal-at-iwf-junior-world-weightlifting-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/harshada-sharad-garud-becomes-the-1st-indian-to-win-gold-medal-at-iwf-junior-world-weightlifting-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Harshada Sharad Garud becomes the 1st Indian to win gold medal at IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>In Weightlifting, Harshada Sharad Garud scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal at the IWF Junior World Championships at Heraklion in Greece. She won the&nbsp;45-kilogram weight category&nbsp;with a total of&nbsp;153 kilograms lifted, including 70 kilograms in Snatch&nbsp;and&nbsp;83 kilograms in Clean and Jerk.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Key Points:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Garud&nbsp;led&nbsp;India&nbsp;to a medal on the first day of the competition, leaving eight rivals behind.&nbsp;Bektas Cansu&nbsp;of Turkey won the silver medal, while&nbsp;Teodora-Luminita&nbsp;Hincu of Moldova won the bronze.<\/li><li>The other Indian in the same weight category, Anjali Patel finished fifth with a total effort of 148 kilograms which included 67 kilograms in snatch and 81 kilograms in clean and jerk.<\/li><li>Only two Indians have won a medal in the&nbsp;IWF Junior World Championships&nbsp;before<\/li><li>Mirabai Chanu&nbsp;was a bronze medalist in 2013 while&nbsp;Achinta Sheuli&nbsp;was a silver medalist the previous year.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>About Harshada Sharad Garud:<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Harshada Sharad Garud,&nbsp;the first Indian weightlifter to win a gold medal at the&nbsp;IWF Junior World Championship 2022, also won the under-17 girls\u2019 title at the&nbsp;2020&nbsp;Khelo India Youth Games.<\/li><li>Harshada&nbsp;began weightlifting as a 12-year-old at the urging of her father, Sharad Garud,&nbsp;who was a state-level weightlifter himself.<\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In Weightlifting, Harshada Sharad Garud scripted history by becoming the first Indian to win a gold medal at the IWF Junior World Championships at Heraklion in Greece. She won the&nbsp;45-kilogram weight category&nbsp;with a total of&nbsp;153 kilograms lifted, including 70 kilograms in Snatch&nbsp;and&nbsp;83 kilograms in Clean and Jerk. Key Points: Garud&nbsp;led&nbsp;India&nbsp;to a medal on the first [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":107776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[4047],"tags":[4100,4765,59,4099],"class_list":["post-107775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-may-2022","tag-harshada-sharad-garud","tag-junior-weightlifting-championship","tag-sports-current-affairs","tag-world-weightlifting-championship"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/894"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107775"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107775\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":107777,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107775\/revisions\/107777"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}