{"id":68370,"date":"2024-12-17T13:07:41","date_gmt":"2024-12-17T04:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/dec\/17\/gukesh-dommaraju-world-chess-champion-youngest-return-india"},"modified":"2024-12-17T13:07:41","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T04:07:41","slug":"youngest-world-chess-champion-gukesh-returns-to-heros-welcome-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68370","title":{"rendered":"Youngest world chess champion Gukesh returns to hero\u2019s welcome in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager receives raucous reception after defeating China\u2019s Ding Liren in tense 14-game series<\/p>\n<p>Indian chess star Gukesh Dommaraju returned to a hero\u2019s welcome in his home city on Monday after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/dec\/12\/gukesh-dommaraju-india-wins-world-chess-championship-youngest-champion-ding-liren\">becoming the youngest world champion<\/a> aged only 18.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of fans crowded the arrivals area of Chennai airport, cheering alongside banks of television cameras as Gukesh made his way out of the airport after victory in taking the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/world-chess-championship-2024\">World Chess Championship<\/a> title.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2024\/dec\/17\/gukesh-dommaraju-world-chess-champion-youngest-return-india\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teenager receives raucous reception after defeating China\u2019s Ding Liren in tense 14-game seriesIndian chess star Gukesh Dommaraju returned to a hero\u2019s welcome in his home city on Monday after becoming the youngest world champion aged only 18.Hundreds of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,61,203],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-sport"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68370","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68371,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68370\/revisions\/68371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}