Born and raised in Chennai, Varun Thakkar along with his teammate KC Ganapathy, both 49ers sailors representing India competed in the Mussanah Open (one of the four tournaments hosted by the Asia and Africa Olympic Qualifier Tournaments) held from 1st to 8th April 2021 and finished first, claiming gold and securing their maiden Olympics appearance. Shree Lohana Mahaparishad congratulates Varun Thakkar on his wonderful achievement and wishes him all the best for his performance in Tokyo 2021 Olympics!<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Varun Thakkar Stats<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Age \u2013<\/strong> 26<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sports\/Discipline –<\/strong> Sailing (49ers)<\/p>\n\n\n\n First Olympic Games \u2013<\/strong> Tokyo 2021<\/p>\n\n\n\n Major Achievements (Collective)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Asian Games<\/strong> Bronze \u2013<\/strong> Asian Games Sailing (49ers), 2018 Jakarta<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Born and raised in Chennai, Varun Thakkar along with his teammate KC Ganapathy, both 49ers sailors representing India competed in the Mussanah Open (one of the four tournaments hosted by the Asia and Africa Olympic Qualifier Tournaments) held from 1st to 8th April 2021 and finished first, claiming gold and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":587,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[90,181],"tags":[191,192,196,182,190,195,193,194],"class_list":["post-454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international","category-shabash-raghuvanshi","tag-lmp-sports","tag-olympics","tag-sailing","tag-shabash-raghuvanshi","tag-sports","tag-team-india","tag-tokyo-2021","tag-tokyo-olympics-2021",""],"translation":{"provider":"WPGlobus","version":"2.7.6","language":"en","enabled_languages":["gu","en"],"languages":{"gu":{"title":true,"content":true,"excerpt":false},"en":{"title":false,"content":false,"excerpt":false}}},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/EyckHX8UYAM8xVf-e1627377577572.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=454"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":589,"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/454\/revisions\/589"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/news.lohanamahaparishad.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}