{"id":5582,"date":"2014-11-06T12:06:28","date_gmt":"2014-11-06T20:06:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/?p=5582"},"modified":"2014-11-17T11:12:37","modified_gmt":"2014-11-17T19:12:37","slug":"ufv-wrestler-phulka-golden-at-sfu-international-tourney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/11\/06\/ufv-wrestler-phulka-golden-at-sfu-international-tourney\/","title":{"rendered":"UFV wrestler Phulka golden at SFU International tourney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gold medalist <strong>Jasmit Phulka<\/strong> led the charge for UFV&#8217;s wrestling team at the Simon Fraser University International tournament last weekend.<br \/>\nPhulka, competing in the 86-kilogram senior men\u2019s division, battled his way to the title, capping his run with a 10-1 triumph over Josh Kim of SFU. Fellow varsity athlete <strong>Rohit Thandi<\/strong> came through with a fourth-place result in the 61 kg men\u2019s event.<br \/>\nThe Cascades wrestling club (non-varsity athletes) also produced some strong results. <strong>Brad Hildebrandt<\/strong> (97 kg) and <strong>OC Safar<\/strong> (54 kg) both won silver medals, while <strong>Aso Palani<\/strong> (fourth, 57 kg) and <strong>Manny Kalhon<\/strong> (fifth, 125 kg) notched top-five placings.<br \/>\n\u201cWe expect a lot from Jasmit, and he works hard and shows up on the mat every time he wrestles,\u201d said UFV coach <strong>Raj Virdi<\/strong>.<br \/>\n\u201cThe whole team wrestled well. For their age and experience, they did fairly well. It was a tough tournament \u2013 it\u2019s not just for university students, it was for any athlete age 18 and up. Some of them were world team members from the U.S. and Canada.\u201d<br \/>\nThis weekend, the Cascades are taking a group of wrestlers to a tournament hosted by Pacific University in Forest Grove, Oregon, featuring competition from NCAA and NAIA schools.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact Dan Kinvig at <a href=\"mailto:dan.kinvig@ufv.ca\">dan.kinvig@ufv.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #fff\">11\/10\/2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gold medalist Jasmit Phulka led the charge for UFV&#8217;s wrestling team at the Simon Fraser University International tournament last weekend. Phulka, competing in the 86-kilogram senior men\u2019s division, battled his way to the title, capping his run with a 10-1 triumph over Josh Kim of SFU. Fellow varsity athlete Rohit Thandi came through with a &#8230; <a title=\"UFV wrestler Phulka golden at SFU International tourney\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/2014\/11\/06\/ufv-wrestler-phulka-golden-at-sfu-international-tourney\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5582"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5582\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ufv.ca\/announce\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}