{"id":2026,"date":"2026-07-27T20:38:27","date_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:08:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/?p=2026"},"modified":"2026-08-03T08:44:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:14:09","slug":"dathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/2026\/07\/27\/dathan\/","title":{"rendered":"A.P. Dathan \u2013 The Unsung Hero Behind India&#8217;s Weightlifting Glory"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr. Dathan Anupurathpishram (A.P. Dathan) is an Indian weightlifting coach contracted with the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and a key member of the national coaching staff who famously helped train Olympic &amp; common wealth medalist Mirabai Chanu.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Professional BackgroundRole: Assistant and additional national weightlifting coach working alongside chief coach Vijay Sharma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Dathan formerly served in the Indian Air Force (IAF),<br>Coached and traveled with Indian contingents for major international events including the Commonwealth Games and World Championships through the Indian Weightlifting Federation<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Dathan is son of Anupurathu pisharath Sathi Balakrishnan and Bhagavatha acharyan (late) Balakrishna Pisharody.<br>Wife : Olarikkara Pisharath Sandhya Dathan<br>Children: Sooraj , Sandra<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. Dathan Anupurathpishram (A.P. Dathan) is an Indian weightlifting coach contracted with the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and a key member of the national coaching staff who famously helped train Olympic &amp; common wealth medalist Mirabai Chanu. Professional BackgroundRole: Assistant and additional national weightlifting coach working alongside chief coach Vijay Sharma. Mr Dathan formerly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2027,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[381,73,351,34],"tags":[353],"class_list":["post-2026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-2026-jun","category-jul","category-news","category-palakkad","tag-news"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2026"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2028,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2026\/revisions\/2028"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2026"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2026"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/v3.pisharodysamajam.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2026"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}