{"id":100700,"date":"2025-02-24T20:09:26","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:39:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=100700"},"modified":"2025-02-24T20:09:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T14:39:26","slug":"bishworjit-saikhom-wins-goa-triathlon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/?p=100700","title":{"rendered":"Bishworjit Saikhom wins Goa Triathlon\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<h3><b>Riddhi Kadam is fastest women\u2019s triathlete and Sweety Nongmaithem is quickest woman Aquathlete<\/b><\/h3>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Goa Khabar : Bishworjit Saikhom of the Indian Army and the miniOrange sports academy team won the Goa Triathlon clocking an imressive 2:08:53 hours for the 51.5 km distance.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Olympic distance, Goa Triathlon was making a comeback in this year\u2019s miniOrange AquaMoga 2025 event after a hiatus of seven years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bishworjit, winner of the 2024 Ironman 70.3 Goa race was a favourite from start to finish. He was out of the ocean first and led the swim-bike-run segments from start to the finish.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_100702\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100702\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100702\" src=\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Riddhi-Kadam-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Riddhi-Kadam-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Riddhi-Kadam.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-100702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Riddhi Kadam<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bishworjit was followed closely by team-mate, Biten Laikhuram, in a time of 2:10:10 hrs and Nihal Baig of Pune, a former, Ironman 70.3 Goa\u00a0 champion in third position with a time of 2:21:42 hrs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Riddhi Kadam, another Team miniOrange triathlete was the quickest woman triathlete winning her race with a time of 2:31:19 hours. Her miniOrange team-mate, Sweety Nongmaithem was likewise the quickest female athlete in the newly introduced, Aquathlon event winning her 1.5km swim plus 10km run event in 1:44:30 hours, on a day dominated by the Pune based miniOrange sports academy.<\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_100703\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-100703\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-100703\" src=\"https:\/\/goakhabar-com.preview.jikut.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sweety-Nongmaithem-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sweety-Nongmaithem-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Sweety-Nongmaithem.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-100703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sweety Nongmaithem<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The two other events which saw some fast racing were the Olympic distance triathlons in the women\u2019s and men\u2019s junior categories. Kabidash Singh of Team miniOrange won the men\u2019s category in\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">2:13: 15 hrs, followed closely by Mohammed Roshan in 2:18:54 hrs, while, Keerthi Sakthivel ( 2:36:05 hrs) and S Haripriya ( 2:41:49 hrs) also from Team miniOrange grabbed the top two positions in the junior women\u2019s category.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Riddhi Kadam is fastest women\u2019s triathlete and Sweety Nongmaithem is quickest woman Aquathlete &nbsp; Goa Khabar : Bishworjit Saikhom of the Indian Army and the miniOrange sports academy team won the Goa Triathlon clocking an imressive 2:08:53 hours for the 51.5 km distance.\u00a0 The Olympic distance, Goa Triathlon was making a comeback in this year\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25169,"featured_media":100701,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[155,6],"tags":[3794],"class_list":["post-100700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-155","category-6","tag-featured"],"read":true,"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25169"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=100700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100704,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100700\/revisions\/100704"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/100701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=100700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=100700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.goakhabar.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=100700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}