{"id":125657,"date":"2022-11-21T12:45:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:15:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/?p=125657"},"modified":"2022-11-21T12:46:23","modified_gmt":"2022-11-21T07:16:23","slug":"manipur-tops-the-medal-tally-in-the-northeast-olympic-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/manipur-tops-the-medal-tally-in-the-northeast-olympic-games\/","title":{"rendered":"Manipur Tops the Medal Tally in the Northeast Olympic Games"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Manipur Tops the Medal Tally in the Northeast Olympic Games: <\/strong>Powerhouse Manipur clinched the top position in the Northeast Olympic Games for the second consecutive time with 237 medals, including 85 gold, as the second edition of the regional multi-sport event concluded here on Wednesday. Manipur&nbsp;also won 76 silver and 77 bronze while&nbsp;Assam&nbsp;was a close second with 201 medals including 81 gold, 60 silver, and 60 bronzes in the event competed among the eight states of the country\u2019s northeast region from November 10.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/category\/daily-quiz\/daily-quiz-november-2022\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">November 2022 Current Affairs Quiz<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Manipur Tops the Medal Tally in the Northeast Olympic Games- Key Points<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The host state, Meghalaya, finished in fourth place with 149 medals (36 gold, 35 silver, and 78 bronze), a far better performance than their sixth-place showing with 39 medals in the first edition. Arunachal Pradesh finished in third place.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>When Manipur held the first Games in October 2018, it also had the most medals (80 gold, 49 silver, and 33 bronze).<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Manipur, which has produced&nbsp;Olympic medal-winning athletes&nbsp;such as boxer&nbsp;MC Mary Kom&nbsp;and weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, overtook Assam and consolidated its top position by winning 17 medals, including seven gold, on the final day.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The&nbsp;U-17 Manipuri women\u2019s football team, which has a few national team players in its ranks, beat Arunachal Pradesh 3-0 in the finals.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Around&nbsp;3000 athletes&nbsp;competed in 18 disciplines at 12 venues spread across Shillong. The first edition in Manipur had 12 disciplines.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Manipur Tops the Medal Tally in the Northeast Olympic Games: Powerhouse Manipur clinched the top position in the Northeast Olympic Games for the second consecutive time with 237 medals, including 85 gold, as the second edition of the regional multi-sport event concluded here on Wednesday. Manipur&nbsp;also won 76 silver and 77 bronze while&nbsp;Assam&nbsp;was a close [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":894,"featured_media":125659,"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":[4982],"tags":[59],"class_list":["post-125657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs-november-2022","tag-sports-current-affairs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125657","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=125657"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125657\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125660,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125657\/revisions\/125660"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gkseries.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}