{"id":8542,"date":"2014-10-02T13:18:41","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8542"},"modified":"2014-10-02T13:18:41","modified_gmt":"2014-10-02T13:18:41","slug":"india-won-asian-hockey-gold-medal-2014-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8542","title":{"rendered":"India won asian hockey gold medal 2014 Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/INDIAN-HOCKEY.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-8545\" src=\"http:\/\/www.generalknowledgetoday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/INDIAN-HOCKEY.jpg\" alt=\"17th Asian Games\" width=\"313\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Asian Games 2014: India men win hockey gold; qualify for 2016 Rio Olympics<\/p>\n<p>In a nerve-wracking contest, India beat Pakistan 4-2 in penalty-shootout to clinch the coveted hockey gold at the Asian Games in Incheon on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This triumph ensures the Indian hockey team a berth at the 2016 Rio Olympics.<\/p>\n<p>In a match between the arch-rivals and in the presence of a sell-out crowd, the two teams were locked at 1-1 at full time. Pakistan drew first blood when unmarked Mohammad Rizwan broke from the right and sounded the boards in the 4th minute.<\/p>\n<p>India equalised in in the 12th minute through Kothajit Singh.<\/p>\n<p>In the one-on-one shoot-off, Akashdeep Singh, Rupinder Pal Singh, Birendra Lakra and Dhramvir Singh scored for India, while Manpreet Singh failed to convert.<\/p>\n<p>But India&#8217;s custodian and vice-captain P R Sreejesh produced breathtaking saves in the shoot-off to deny Pakistan&#8217;s Abdul Haseem Khan and Muhammad Umar Butta. Muhammad Waqas and Shafqat Rasool scored the goals for Pakistan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asian Games 2014: India men win hockey gold; qualify for 2016 Rio Olympics In a nerve-wracking contest, India beat Pakistan 4-2 in penalty-shootout to clinch the coveted hockey gold at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/?p=8542\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[125],"tags":[2278,2279,2315,2316,2317,2318,2319],"class_list":["post-8542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-affairs-today","tag-asian-games","tag-asian-games-2014","tag-asian-hockey-gold-medal-2014-asian-games","tag-hockey","tag-incheon","tag-india-won-asian-hockey-gold-medal-2014","tag-india-won-asian-hockey-gold-medal-2014-asian-games","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8542\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/generalknowledgetoday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}