{"id":1457,"date":"2012-09-13T21:50:37","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:20:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.entecity.com\/?p=1457"},"modified":"2012-09-13T21:50:37","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T16:20:37","slug":"girisha-is-an-inspiration-to-all-of-us-sachin-tendulkar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/girisha-is-an-inspiration-to-all-of-us-sachin-tendulkar\/","title":{"rendered":"Girisha is an inspiration to all of us: Sachin Tendulkar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday described London Paralympic Games silver-medallist Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda as an &#8220;inspiration to all of us&#8221; and wished the high-jumper the very best for all his future endeavours.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was wonderful speaking to Girisha on Wednesday. He is an inspiration to all of us. I wish him all the very best for coming years,&#8221; Tendulkar wrote on his\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/SachinTendulkar\">Facebook\u00a0page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>India&#8217;s lone medallist at the Games, Girisha had on Tuesday received a phone call from the veteran cricketer.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sachin called me up on Tuesday and I was very happy when he said I have become an inspiration for many people,&#8221; the para athlete had told\u00a0<em>PTI<\/em>\u00a0at Chief Minister Jagadish Shettar&#8217;s official residence here on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Girisha, who has an impairment in his left leg, sailed over 1.74m in the final of the Games to finish second behind Iliesa Delana of Fiji. The Paralympian said he would meet Tendulkar in a few days time.<\/p>\n<p>Girisha&#8217;s first taste of success was when he won a prize at the State-level sports meet in Dharwad when he competed with normal sportsmen. His first achievement at the international level came when he won a bronze at the Junior World Championships for the disabled in Ireland in 2006. He then won a bronze medal at the Mysore University sports meet. He then won the gold medal at the national high jump championship. This was followed by Gold medals in athletic meets in Kuwait and Malaysia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sachin Tendulkar on Thursday described London Paralympic Games silver-medallist Girisha Hosanagara Nagarajegowda as an &#8220;inspiration to all of us&#8221; and wished the high-jumper the very best for all his future endeavours. &#8220;It was wonderful speaking to Girisha on Wednesday. He is an inspiration to all of us. I wish him all the very best for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":1459,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[106],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1457"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1457\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entecity.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}