{"id":6695,"date":"2025-06-02T12:08:48","date_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:08:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/?p=6695"},"modified":"2025-06-02T12:08:49","modified_gmt":"2025-06-02T12:08:49","slug":"historic-victory-for-pakistan-at-asian-rowing-championship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/2025\/06\/02\/historic-victory-for-pakistan-at-asian-rowing-championship\/","title":{"rendered":"Historic Victory for Pakistan at Asian Rowing Championship"},"content":{"rendered":"In a groundbreaking performance that marks a new era for rowing in Pakistan, the national indoor rowing team secured a remarkable total of 14 medals \u2014 including 10 gold \u2014 at the Asian Indoor Rowing Championship held in Pattaya, Thailand.<br \/><br \/>Competing against 25 countries, the underdog Pakistani squad stunned traditional powerhouses such as India, Iran, Thailand, South Korea, and Japan, proudly raising the national flag and making the national anthem echo across the international arena. Despite being a small contingent, the Pakistani rowers delivered an outstanding performance that defied expectations.<br \/><br \/>The Pakistan Rowing Federation, along with other sports stakeholders, gave the athletes a grand welcome upon their return. They also appealed to the federal government, the Pakistan Sports Board, and the Punjab Sports Board to organize a ceremony in the team\u2019s honor and reward the athletes with cash prizes as a gesture of appreciation.<br \/><br \/>President of the Pakistan Rowing Federation, Hamdan Nazir, and Chairman Rizwan-ul-Haq praised the players\u2019 exceptional performance, stating that Pakistan\u2019s rowing athletes are now ready to compete \u2014 and succeed \u2014 at the global level. They urged both the federal and Punjab governments to extend full support and patronage to the sport of\u00a0rowing.","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a groundbreaking performance that marks a new era for rowing in Pakistan, the national indoor rowing team secured a remarkable total of 14 medals \u2014 including 10 gold \u2014 at the Asian Indoor Rowing Championship held in Pattaya, Thailand. Competing against 25 countries, the underdog Pakistani squad stunned traditional powerhouses such as India, Iran,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6700,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,31,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-6695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-international","8":"category-national","9":"category-example-3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6695"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6698,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6695\/revisions\/6698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/capitalnewspk.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}