{"id":10661,"date":"2022-04-30T10:16:58","date_gmt":"2022-04-30T10:16:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/30\/grand-opening-to-philip-capital-national-masters-athletics\/"},"modified":"2022-04-30T10:16:58","modified_gmt":"2022-04-30T10:16:58","slug":"grand-opening-to-philip-capital-national-masters-athletics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/2022\/04\/30\/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=\"810\" height=\"540\" src=\"https:\/\/pnn.digital\/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 30:<\/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 byShri<strong>&nbsp;Udhayanidhi&nbsp;Stalin<\/strong> &#8211;&nbsp;a Member of the Tamil Nadu Legislative Assembly, Presided by Shri<strong>&nbsp;MA Subramanian,&nbsp;<\/strong>Minister for Health &amp; Family Welfare, in the presence of Shri<strong>&nbsp;Siva. V. Meyyanathan<\/strong>&nbsp;Minister for Environment, Youth Welfare and Sports Development,&nbsp;Mrs.&nbsp;<strong>Margit&nbsp;Jungmann<\/strong>&nbsp;President World Masters Athletics, (Germany) Mr.<strong>&nbsp;Stanley Perkin<\/strong>&nbsp;Life&nbsp;President World Masters Athletics (Australia) and&nbsp;other Eminent Leaders and personalities.<\/p>\n<p>Mr.&nbsp;<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":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[648],"class_list":["post-10661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-business","rishi-post","no-post-thumbnail"],"rishi__cb_customizer_meta":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedeccanmessenger.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}