{"id":12439,"date":"2022-04-28T13:36:50","date_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:36:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/grand-opening-to-philip-capital-national-masters-athletics\/"},"modified":"2022-04-28T13:36:50","modified_gmt":"2022-04-28T13:36:50","slug":"grand-opening-to-philip-capital-national-masters-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/28\/grand-opening-to-philip-capital-national-masters-athletics\/","title":{"rendered":"Grand Opening to Philip Capital National Masters Athletics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dsprime\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"525\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/primexnewsnetwork.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/PhillipCapital-Opening-Ceremony.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 10px\" \/><\/div>\n<p><em>From left: Stanley Perkins, Margit Jungmann, Thiru Siva V. Meyyanathan, Thiru Udaynidhi Stalin, and Thiru MA. Subramanian receiving the guard of honour salute from more than 3500 athletes across 28 States<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Chennai (Tamil Nadu [India], April 28:<\/strong> The Masters Athletic Federation of India, affiliated with the Asian Masters Athletics and the World Masters Athletics, are organizing the Philip Capital 42<sup>nd<\/sup>\u00a0National Masters Athletics Championship 2022. Chennai, which was flagged off after a grand opening ceremony on\u00a0Wednesday. The Championships will continue till\u00a0May 1.\u00a0The Philip Capital National Masters championship qualifies Master Athletes to compete at the Asian and World Athletic Championships.<\/p>\n<p>The opening ceremony witnessed more than 3500 athletes competing from across 28 states in India, with a total of 22 Athletic disciplines across 13 age categories, making it the largest athletic competition.<\/p>\n<p>The Opening Ceremony was inaugurated by<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Shri<strong>\u00a0Udhayanidhi\u00a0Stalin<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0a Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, Presided by Shri<strong>\u00a0MA Subramanian,\u00a0<\/strong>Minister for Health &amp; Family Welfare, in the presence of Shri<strong>\u00a0Siva. V. Meyyanathan<\/strong>\u00a0Minister for Environment, Youth Welfare and Sports Development,\u00a0Mrs.\u00a0<strong>Margit\u00a0Jungmann<\/strong>\u00a0President World Masters Athletics, (Germany) Mr.<strong>\u00a0Stanley Perkin<\/strong>\u00a0Life\u00a0President World Masters Athletics (Australia) and\u00a0other Eminent Leaders and personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.\u00a0<strong>D David Premnath<\/strong>, Secretary-General of Masters Athletics Federation of India, said, &#8220;Adapting to the new normal and reviving back to sport from the unprecedented impacts of the COVID-19 Pandemic is the need of the hour. Building immunity, resilience and redefining the sport through advocacy with a positive approach, ensuring that the world of sport and the Master&#8217;s Movement continues to make its vital and valued contributions in building hope and a better sporting future for all.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left: Stanley Perkins, Margit Jungmann, Thiru Siva V. Meyyanathan, Thiru Udaynidhi Stalin, and Thiru MA. Subramanian receiving the guard of honour salute from more than 3500 athletes across 28 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_rishi_post_view_count":246},"categories":[10],"tags":[675],"class_list":["post-12439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-sports","rishi-post"],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","comments_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12439\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newswiredelhi.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}