{"id":4886,"date":"2020-04-02T10:48:19","date_gmt":"2020-04-02T10:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2020-04-08T10:16:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-08T10:16:50","slug":"02-b-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=4886","title":{"rendered":"India&#8217;s First Female Judoka Olympian Athlete .   July 2002 ."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Lourembam Brojeshori Devi<\/strong>, aged 19 was the first and only female judoka in the Indian Olympic contingent who participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in the Judo event &#8216; Women&#8217;s Half-lightweight &#8216;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brojeshori Devi at 19 was a National champion . She &nbsp;participated in 20 international and 16 national judo championships. Took part in the 2002 Busan Asian Games, the Commonwealth Games 2002 (Manchester) and in 2006 (Melbourne). This judoka won 2 Gold medals in SAF Games in 2006 and 2010. She won a Silver medal at the Vietnam International Judo tournament at Ho Chi Min city. Also represented India in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing (China).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brojeshori Devi was coached by Deven Moirangthem from Imphal (Manipur)for the period 1995-1988.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">L. Brojeshori Devi born January 01st,1981 hails from Imphal, Manipur. She is the 3rd child amongst 5 children born to Lourembam Manglem and Taruni L. of Khagempalli, Huidrom Leikai. She was married to Th Rojen of Tabungkhok Mayai Leikai.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Brojeshori joined the CRPF in 1999 and worked as &#8216;Inspector&#8217; of Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF). She was undergoing training in July 2013 at the CRPF Training Centre in Coimbatore on a Departmental training programme to become &#8216;Assistant Commandant&#8217; when she became unwell.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">She expired prematurely at 10.45pm, July 21st,2013 &#8211; aged 32, \u00a0at G.K. Hospital, Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu where she was rushed for health related treatment.\u00a0Lourembam Brojeshori Devi&#8217;s last rites were carried out by her husband Rojen Singh in Tabukhok Mayailekai near Imphal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lourembam Brojeshori Devi, aged 19 was the first and only female judoka in the Indian Olympic contingent who participated in the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games in the Judo event &#8216; Women&#8217;s Half-lightweight &#8216;. Brojeshori Devi at 19 was a National champion . She &nbsp;participated in 20 international and 16 national judo championships. Took part in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/?p=4886\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">India&#8217;s First Female Judoka Olympian Athlete .   July 2002 .<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4963,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.globalrecordsindia.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}