{"id":89401,"date":"2014-08-01T16:19:21","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T20:19:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/?p=67544"},"modified":"2014-08-01T16:19:21","modified_gmt":"2014-08-01T20:19:21","slug":"2-boxers-from-manipur-laishram-devendro-sarita-storm-into-the-finals-of-glasgow-2014-xx-cw-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/2014\/08\/01\/2-boxers-from-manipur-laishram-devendro-sarita-storm-into-the-finals-of-glasgow-2014-xx-cw-games\/","title":{"rendered":"2 Boxers from Manipur, Laishram Devendro &amp; Sarita, storm into the Finals of Glasgow 2014 XX CW Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Glasgow 02-Aug-2014:<\/p>\n<p>Laishram Sarita , a native of Manipur, fights her way into the Final of Women&#8217;s Light\u00a0Category in the Commonwealth Games at Glasgow 2014. \u00a0She defeated Maria Mochongua of Mozambique in all the 4 rounds of\u00a0Semi-final bout.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Sarita.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-0\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67451\" src=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Sarita.jpg\" alt=\"Sarita\" width=\"300\" height=\"254\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #252525;\">Sarita was born in a poor agricultural family in Thoubal district Manipur. She used to spend her time helping her parents in collecting firewood and in the fields, which helped her build the stamina she has today.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the final bout, she will face S. Watts of Australia scheduled for 2nd August, 14.15 BST.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Devendro.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-1\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67545\" src=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Devendro.jpg\" alt=\"Devendro\" width=\"114\" height=\"142\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In another bout on the same day, Laishram Devendro, a talented\u00a0World No\u00a03 (Light Fly) boxer from Manipur, storms into the Finals of the ongoing XX Commonwealth Games at Glasgow 2014. He has an easy bout\u00a0against his semi-final opponent Ashley Williams of Welsh and won by 3:0.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Devendro-Singh-Laishram-reacts-after-winning-his-fight-against-Mongolias-Serdamba-Pureverdorj-during-the-mens-light-flyweight-boxing-competition-in-London-on-Saturday.jpg\" rel=\"lightbox-2\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-39144 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/Devendro-Singh-Laishram-reacts-after-winning-his-fight-against-Mongolias-Serdamba-Pureverdorj-during-the-mens-light-flyweight-boxing-competition-in-London-on-Saturday-616x395.jpg\" alt=\"Devendro Singh Laishram reacts after winning his fight against Mongolia's Serdamba Pureverdorj during the men's light flyweight boxing competition in London on Saturday.\" width=\"389\" height=\"250\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>With this win, he is assured of at least a Silver Medal in the Men&#8217;s Light Fly (49 Kg ) Category.<\/p>\n<p>In the Final bout scheduled for 2nd August, 14:30 BST, Devendro will fight against\u00a0Paddy Barnes of Northern Ireland, a tough and experienced world class boxer. Paddy Barnes currently holds World No 3 in 53 Kg category, however came down to\u00a049Kg category in the Glasgow 2014 \u00a0XX Commonwealth Games.<\/p>\n<p>Kanglaonline team wishes all the best to Laishram Devendro and Laishram Sarita for their\u00a0final bouts.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Follow updates here:<strong><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a0http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2014\/07\/manipur-in-glasgow-2014-commonwealth-games-live-updates\/<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">Read more \/ Original news source: <a href=\"http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2014\/08\/2-boxers-from-manipur-laishram-devendro-sarita-storm-into-the-finals-of-glasgow-2014-xx-cw-games\/\">http:\/\/kanglaonline.com\/2014\/08\/2-boxers-from-manipur-laishram-devendro-sarita-storm-into-the-finals-of-glasgow-2014-xx-cw-games\/<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Glasgow 02-Aug-2014: Laishram Sarita , a native of Manipur, fights her way into the Final of Women&#8217;s Light\u00a0Category in the Commonwealth Games at Glasgow 2014. \u00a0She defeated Maria Mochongua of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[1626,2887,2879,40,43,330,1627,2917],"class_list":["post-89401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kanglaonline","category-news","tag-boxing","tag-commonwealth-games","tag-glasgow-2014","tag-headlines","tag-k-featured","tag-kanglaonline-2","tag-laishram-devendro-singh","tag-laishram-sarita"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89401\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.manipur.org\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}