{"id":50556,"date":"2024-08-31T12:05:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-31T06:20:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/?p=50556"},"modified":"2024-08-31T17:06:29","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T11:21:29","slug":"palesha-wins-historic-bronze-for-nepal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/2024\/08\/31\/palesha-wins-historic-bronze-for-nepal\/","title":{"rendered":"Palesha wins historic bronze for Nepal"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Kathmandu:<\/strong> Palesha Govardhan has won a historic bronze medal for Nepal in the Paris Paralympics 2024. In the women&#8217;s under Taekwondo 57 kg event under the K-44 category match held last night, Palesha defeated Serbia&#8217;s Marija Michev by 15-8 points to bring a coveted bronze medal for herself and the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She has become the first Nepali athlete to win a medal in the Paralympics. In the first round match held yesterday, she had defeated Valeria Morales of Venezuela by 31-0 and made it to the quarterfinals. However, she lost to Brazil&#8217;s Silvana Fernandezong 10-8 in the quarterfinals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As she was defeated in the second round, she got another chance or repechage, in which she defeated host France&#8217;s Sefi Carvajnelle by 2-1.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Palesha is also the first Nepali athlete to play in the Paralympics after passing the qualifying round.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nepal has started participating in the Paralympics since the 2004 Athens Para-Olympics. Palesha started playing taekwondo since the age of 10 and joined the Para national team in 2016. Since then she has participated and won medals in various international competitions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kathmandu: Palesha Govardhan has won a historic bronze medal for Nepal in the Paris Paralympics 2024. In the women&#8217;s under Taekwondo 57 kg event under the K-44 category match held last night, Palesha defeated Serbia&#8217;s Marija Michev by 15-8 points to bring a coveted bronze medal for herself and the country. She has become the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":50557,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50556","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/08\/palesha-1725065399.jpeg?fit=1000%2C562&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcWLTd-d9q","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50556","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50556"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50556\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50558,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50556\/revisions\/50558"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50557"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50556"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50556"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nepallivetoday.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50556"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}