Weightlifting: India
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RECORDS
Women
+87 kg
Snatch
104 kg Purnima Pandey 2022
102 KG Purnima Pandey 16.12.21
101kg Ann Mariya MT 2022
C&J clean and jerk
129 kg Ann Maryia MT 2022
128kg Manpreet Kaur 2022
127 KG Purnima Pandey 16.12.21
Total
231 kg Ann Maryia MT 2022
229 KG Purnima Pandey 16.12.21
87 kg
Snatch
102 KG Srishti Singh RSPB 26.2.19
C&J clean and jerk
126 KG P. Anuradha Tamil Nadu 26.2.19
Total
228 KG P. Anuradha Tamil Nadu 26.2.19
81 kg
Snatch
99 KG Punam Yadav RSPB 25.2.19
C&J clean and jerk
121 KG Swapna Priya Baruah Assam 25.2.19
Total
220 KG Punam Yadav RSPB 25.2.19
76 kg
Snatch
98 KG Punam Yadav RSPB 15.12.21
C&J clean and jerk
123 KG R. Arockiya Alish Tamil Nadu 15.12.21
Total
220 KG Punam Yadav RSPB 15.12.21
71 kg
Snatch
95 KG Lalchhanhimi Mizoram 5.2.20
C&J clean and jerk
122 KG Lalchhanhimi Mizoram 5.2.20
Total
217 KG Lalchhanhimi Mizoram 5.2.20
64 kg
Snatch
95 KG Rakhi Halder RSPB 21.12.19
C&J clean and jerk
124 KG Rakhi Halder RSPB 22.9.19
Total
218 KG Rakhi Halder RSPB 21.12.19
59 kg
Snatch
94 KG Popy Hazarika Assam 4.2.20
C&J clean and jerk
115 KG E. Deexitha Telangana 23.2.19
Total
203 KG E. Deexitha RSPB 4.2.20
55 kg
Snatch
84 KG M. Santoshi RSPB 23.2.19
C&J clean and jerk
114 KG S. Bindyarani Devi Manipur 9.12.21
Total
198 KG S. Bindyarani Devi Manipur 9.12.21
49 kg
Snatch
88 KG S. Mirabai Chanu RSPB 4.2.20
C&J clean and jerk
119 KG S. Mirabai Chanu RSPB 18.4.21 (In 2021 and till 2023 this was a world record)
Total
205 KG S. Mirabai Chanu RSPB 18.4.21
45 kg
Snatch
71 KG Jhilli Dalabehera RSPB 21.4.19
C&J clean and jerk
94 KG Jhilli Dalabehera RSPB 9.7.19
Total
164 KG Jhilli Dalabehera RSPB 9.7.19
Men
+109 kg
Snatch
172 KG Gurdeep Singh RSPB 17.12.21
C&J clean and jerk
220 KG Gurdeep Singh RSPB 28.2.19
Total
390 KG Gurdeep Singh RSPB 28.2.19
109 kg
Snatch
161 KG Lovepreet Singh Punjab 16.12.21
C&J clean and jerk
187 KG Lovepreet Singh Punjab 16.12.21
Total
348 KG Lovepreet Singh Punjab 16.12.21
102 kg
Snatch
150 KG Pardeep Singh RSPB 26.4.19
C&J clean and jerk
202 KG Pardeep Singh RSPB 13.7.19
Total
351 KG Pardeep Singh RSPB 26.4.19
96 kg
Snatch
157 KG Vikas Thakur SSCB 9.2.19
C&J clean and jerk
197 KG Vikas Thakur SSCB 25.4.19
Total
353 KG Vikas Thakur SSCB 9.2.19
89 kg
Snatch
150 KG Harshad Wadekar RSPB 26.2.19
C&J clean and jerk
188 KG Sambo Lapung SSCB 6.2.20
Total
337 KG Harshad Wadekar RSPB 26.2.19
81 kg
Snatch
148 KG Ajay Singh SSCB 4.11.18
C&J clean and jerk
190 KG Ajay Singh SSCB 12.7.19
Total
338 KG Ajay Singh SSCB 12.7.19
73 kg
Snatch
145 KG Deepak Lather SSCB 11.8.21
C&J clean and jerk
173 KG Achinta Sheuli West Bengal 10.12.21
Total
316 KG Achinta Sheuli West Bengal 10.12.21
67 kg
Snatch
141 KG Jeremy Lalrinnunga Mizoram 10.12.21
C&J clean and jerk
167 KG Jeremy Lalrinnunga Mizoram 3.2.20
Total
306 KG Jeremy Lalrinnunga Mizoram 20.12.19
61 kg
Snatch
120 KG Muthupandi Raja RSPB 10.7.19
C&J clean and jerk
157 KG Shubham Kolekar Maharashtra 3.2.20
Total
272 KG Shubham Kolekar Maharashtra 3.2.20
55 kg
Snatch
113 KG Sanket Sargar Maharashtra 7.12.21
C&J clean and jerk
139 KG Shubham Kolekar Maharashtra 9.1.19
Total
244 KG Sanket Sargar Maharashtra 26.2.20
Asian weightlifting championships
2023
A
May 7, 2023: The Times of India
New Delhi: Bindyarani Devi opened India’s medal account at the Asian weightlifting championships after securing a creditable silver with a total lift of 194kg in the women’s 55kg division in Jinju, South Korea.
After the opening day’s disappointment, when World and Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu failed to finish on the podium in the wom en’s 49kg competition, Bindyarani provided the much-needed spark to the country’s campaign with her fighting effort in the clean & jerk section to make amends for her unimpressive show in the snatch. The Birmingham CWG silver medallist could manage a best lift of 83kg in snatch but went on to heave the barbell to 111kg in the clean & jerk to total 194kg after the end of her competit ion round. Bindyarani had entered the tournament after recovering from a left knee injury before the trials. The Manipuri weightlifter had two failed lifts –one each in snatch and clean and j erk. She attempted her first two snatch lifts of 80kg and 83kg with r elative ease but faltered trying 85kg, which was deemed a no-lift. In the clean & jerk, she successfully completed her two lifts but failed in her third attempt, going for a 115kg lift to settle for the second-place finish.
Chen Guan Ling of Chinese Taipei won the gold with an overall lift of 204kg (90kg+114kg) whi le Vietnam’s Vo Thi Quynh Nhu bagged the bronze with an effort of 192kg (88kg+104kg). The Asian championships is part of the Paris Olympics qualification cycle and a good showing a t the event will help weightlifters accumulate the crucial ranking points.
B: Ajith, Achinta finish one and two
May 9, 2023: The Times of India
Jinju (Korea) : Indian weightlifters Ajith Narayana and Achinta Sheuli finished first and second, respectively in Group B of the men’s 73kg event at the Asian Championships. Ajith lifted a total of 307kg (139kg+168kg), while Achinta could only manage 305kg (140kg+165kg).
Both lifters were assigned Group B based on their entry weights. The lifters who register the highest entry weight are placed in group A, followed by B and so on. Ajith, the reigning national champion, lifted 135kg and 139kg in his opening two snatch attempts but couldn’t hoist the barbell in his final try of 141kg.
Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships
2023
A
Sanjana wins gold in clean and jerk, silver in snatch and total lift: India’s Sanjana won a gold medal in clean and jerk but settled for a silver in the total lift in women’s 76kg category in the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships. Sanjana also won a silver in the snatch with an effort of 86kg in the youth competition. She lifted 112kg in clean and jerk. Her total effort was of 198kg.
Powerlifting
World Masters Powerlifting championship
2023
A
Manju V , Oct 24, 2023: The Times of India
While the country was eating, sleeping and breathing cricket with its Men in Blue, a 40-year-old mother of two was quietly making waves in distant Mongolia. Pune-based Dr Sharvari Inamdar bar-belled to beat her competitors from 37 countries and become the only Indian to ever win two gold medals in the annual World Masters Powerlifting championship, held in Mongolia.
A strength sport, powerlifting competition comprises three attempts at three classic lifts: squat, bench press and deadlift. The highest weights lifted in each of the three attempts are totalled to select the winner. Sharvari, competing in the 57kg category, totalled 350kg — 127.5kg squat, 75kg bench press and 147.5kg deadlift — in the classic powerlifting competition to win gold.
She defeated Kirkpatrick Rebecca of the UK who totalled 342.5kg and Jennifer McCombie of Hong Kong who lifted 340kg. Inamdar did 395kg total in the ‘equipped’ category, in which competitors wear supportive knee sleeves, belts, wrist wraps, etc.
For the International Powerlifting Federation’s ‘Best Lifters of Masters/Strong Woman’ title, which is chosen from across all age groups and weight categories in the equipped category, Sharvari made it to the second rank.
World Cup
2024
April 2, 2024: The Times of India
Phuket:Commonwealth Games medallist weightlifter Bindyrani Devi clinched the bronze medal in the women’s 55kg event at the IWF World Cup. Competing in anon-Olympic weight class, the 25-year-old lifted a total of 196kg (83kg+113kg) to claim the last spot on the podium.
However, it was an underwhelming display by the Manipuri lifter, who had won the CWG silver in Birmingham with a total effort of 203kg in 2022. The Indian could manage three legal lifts in her six attempts here and her total was a whopping 38kg less than that of North Koreas Kang Hyon Gyong, who won the gold medal for her effort of 234kg (103kg+131kg).
Romania's Cambei Mihaela-Valentina, who has qualified for the Paris Olympics in Mirabai Chanu's 49kg weight class, took home the silver with a personal best effort of 201kg (91kg+110kg). Bindyarani also bagged the silver medal in the clean and jerk section for her 113kg lift. Medals are awarded separately for snatch, clean and jerk, and total lift in continental, World Cups and World Championships. Despite her performance, Bindiyarani is out of contention for Paris. PTI
World Junior Weightlifting Championships
2022
May 3, 2022: The Times of India
Harsha wins gold at Jr weightlifting Worlds
Tushar.Dutt@timesgroup.com
Pune : Harshada Garud, 18, created history on Monday as she clinched the gold at the World Junior Weightlifting Championships in Heraklion, Greece. Harshada lifted 70kg in snatch and 83kg in clean & jerk to total 153kg for gold in the 45kg weight category. The Punegirl beat last edition’s champion, Bektas Cansu of Turkey. Cansu lifted 150kg (65kg+85kg) for silver. The bronze went to Moldova’s Hincu Teodora-Luminita (67kg +82kg) with a total of 149kg. With this feat, Harshada has become the first Indian to win a gold a t junior weightlifting world championships. Mirabai Chanu’s bronze in 2013, Jeremy Lalrinnunga and Achinta Sheuli’s silver last year are the other medals Indian junior lifters have won at the worlds.
YEAR-WISE DEVELOPMENTS
2017
The best players
February 13, 2018: The Times of India
From: February 13, 2018: The Times of India
Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu
Please see picture: K Sanjita Chanu, achievements at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships, 2017
SAIKHOM MIRABAI CHANU
Became only the second Indian weightlifter after Karnam Malleswari to win gold at the World Weightlifting Championships. In the women’s 48kg event, she lifted a new world record of 194kg - 85kg snatch and 109kg cleanand-jerk. Broke her own existing record in the snatch event at the Commonwealth Senior weightlifting championships with a lift of 85kg. With this gold medal, Chanu qualified for the 2018 Commonwealth Games to be held in Australia.
SATHISH KUMAR SHIVALINGAM
Won gold in the men’s 77kg event at the Commonwealth Senior weightlifting championships held in Australia, with a total effort of 320kg (148kg in snatch, 172kg in clean & jerk). With this, he sealed passage to the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
RAGALA VENKAT RAHUL
Won two gold medals in the men’s 85kg categories at the Commonwealth Senior weightlifting championships held in Australia, with a standout total lift of 351kg (156kg in snatch, 195kg in clean & jerk). The youngster from Guntur created two records and won two gold medals in the 85kg category.
JEREMY LALRINNUNGA
Clinched silver in the boy’s 56kg category at the IWF Youth World Weightlifting Championships in Bangkok. The 14-year-old lifted a total of 240kg (110 in snatch and 130 in clean & jerk) to finish second in the event. Won gold (53kg) at the Commonwealth Senior weightlifting championships held in Australia.
2018
Commonwealth Games
Weightlifting, Deepak Lather (Bronze in the men's 69 kg event)
April 6, 2018: The Times of India
Teenager Deepak Lather has extended India’s weightlifting medal tally at the 2018 Commonwealth Games to four by winning bronze in the men’s 69kg event. In his first appearance at the quadrennial games, the 18-year-old from the village of Shadipur in Haryana - who was once enrolled at Pune’s Army Sports Institute as a diver - finished with a combined effort of 295kg (136 in snatch and 159 in clean & jerk) at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre on April 6, 2018.
Lather, who two years ago broke the Commonwealth Youth Games record in Samoa, moved into medal contention with lifts of 132kg and 136kg in the snatch event, but slipped to level second after failing to lift 138kg in his third attempt. In the clean & jerk, a section in which there were six lifters with higher weights, the youngster produced a personal best of 159kg, bettering his previous best of 157, but failed to lift 162 in his third attempt.
Marginally in line for a bronze, the prize for India was confirmed when Samoa’s Vaipova Ioane failed to seal bronze. It is an outstanding result from the teenager, who entered his maiden Commonwealth Games with plenty of expectation but who was competing with some far more experienced weightlifters.
Winning gold in the 69kg event was Gareth Evans of Wales with a total lift of 299kg (136 in snatch, 163 in clean & jerk) followed by Sri Lanka’s Indika Dissanayake with 297 (137 in snatch, 160 in clean & jerk).
Born into a family of farmers, Deepak took to weightlifting at the age of nine when his father Bijender noticed his strength while ploughing the field and lifting burlap sacks of fodder onto his back. In 2008, he impressed during a series of trials conducted across Haryana by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and was chosen to travel to Pune where, interestingly, he was trained as a diver. As it turned out, Deepak was disinterested in diving and found his calling when he was re-assigned to be a weightlifter.
The hard work began to pay off after a slow start when in 2015 he won the youth (Under-17) 62kg category at the Commonwealth Championships, a silver medal at the Asian Youth Championships and became the youngest Indian weightlifter to enter the World Championships. In 2016, at the age of 15, Deepak became the youngest Indian to win the national championship when he smashed the country’s long-standing 62kg snatch record and finished with a total of 267kg.
At the Commonwealth Games Championships in 2017, Deepak won gold in the 69kg category and bronze in the senior men’s section to heighten expectations at the CWG. As it continues to be proven, diving’s loss has become weightlifting’s gain.
2019
Asian Championship
Youth record for Jeremy; Mirabai misses bronze
April 22, 2019: The Times of India
Former world champion Mirabai Chanu produced her personal best but missed out on a podium finish by a whisker, while Youth Olympics gold medallist Jeremy Lalrinnunga went on a recordsmashing spree at the Asian Weightlifting Championship.
The 24-year-old Mirabai lifted 86kg in snatch and a personal best of 113kg in clean and jerk for a total of 199kg in the women’s 49kg event to finish on fourth position.
Her earlier personal best total in 49kg was 192kg in the EGAT Cup in Thailand in February.
In a remarkable performance, 16-year-old Jeremy secured second place in Group B of the 67kg men’s event. During his record-smashing spree, he claimed three world marks.
Earlier in the day, Jhili Dalabehera opened India’s medal account, claiming a silver medal in the women’s 45kg category. However, 45kg is not a Olympic weight category.
The points gathered from this event will come in handy when the final rankings for 2020 Tokyo Olympics are made next year.
Unfortunately Mirabai missed the bronze as China’s Zhang Rong with the same total of 199kg (88kg+111kg) finished third under new rules, which came into effect in 2017. Under these rules, the competitor who has a lower clean and jerk result (that means higher snatch result) will be ranked higher in the classification of athletes for total lift. The gold medal went to Hou Zhihui of China who produced an effort of 208kg (92kg+116kg) while North Korea’s Ri Song-gum clinched the silver, lifting 200kg (86kg+114kg) in the gold level Olympic qualifier.
After clearing 86kg in her snatch, Mirabai began her clean and jerk with a 109kg and then lifted 113kg successfully. But in her third attempt, the Manipuri could not lift 115kg and that cost her dear. Had she been successful in her attempt to lift 115kg, she would have won a silver with a total of 201kg. PTI
Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship
Day 1/ 13 medals, including eight gold
Mirabai bags gold at C’wealth meet
Apia (Samoa): Former world champion Mirabai Chanu led the Indian medal rush by notching up a gold on the opening day of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship in Apia, Samoa. The Indian contingent won 13 medals that included eight gold, three silver and two bronze medals in senior, junior and youth categories. Mirabai lifted a total of 191kg (84kg + 107 kg) in the senior women’s 49 kg event to win the gold in the Olympic qualifying event. Jhilli Dalabehra also clinched first place with a lift of 154kg (70kg+94kg) in senior women's 45 kg event. In 55kg, Soroikhaibam Bindyarani Devi and Matsa Santoshi won the gold and silver medals respectively. Bindyarani lifted 78 kg in snatch to bag silver. In senior men's 55kg, Rishikanta Singh grabbed gold with a total of 235kg .
Day 2: 7 gold medals
July 11, 2019: The Times of India
Rakhi Halder and Davinder Kaur won a gold medal each in the senior women’s section as Indian weightlifters continued their impressive show on the second day of the Commonwealth Championships here on Wednesday. India had also won five other gold medals in the junior and youth sections.
Kaur lifted a total of 184kg (80+104) to win the women’s 59kg gold while Halder clinched the yellow metal with a combined effort of 214kg (94+120) in the 64kg category. India had clinched 8 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals on Day 2. Former world champion Mirabai Chanu had won the gold in women’s 49kg with a total lift of 191kg. PTI
IWF strips SAG competition of Olympic status; India affected
Sabi Hussain, Nov 26, 2019: The Times of India
Indian weightlifting’s two best Tokyo Olympic hopes, Mirabai Chanu and Jeremy Lalrinnunga, have suffered a setback in their quest to qualify for the Summer Games next year – for no fault of theirs.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has stripped the weightlifting competition at the upcoming South Asian Games (SAG) in Nepal of its Olympic qualification status for not adhering to its ‘whereabouts’ rule concerning dope testing of athletes.
As a result, the SAG will no longer serve as a qualification gateway to Tokyo for weightlifters of participating nations – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives and hosts Nepal. For the record, weightlifting at the SAG, scheduled to be held from December 1 to 10, was the only discipline which had been labelled a ‘silver level’ Olympic qualification event by the IWF.
The Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) had entered Mirabai and Jeremy’s entries keeping in mind the fact that the Games will provide a perfect chance to the two weightlifters to strengthen their world rankings, given the relatively low level of competition on offer. Mirabai and Jeremy will now compete in the International Cup in Doha, Qatar from December 19 to 24, which will act as a qualification event. The IWLF will send a junior team to Nepal.
Sources informed TOI that some participating nations did not submit the whereabouts of their weightlifters to IWF in advance, and the world governing body stripped the Games of its qualification status. IWF rule states that the federations sending athletes to a qualifying meet will have to send details at least two months in advance.
Qatar Cup: Mirabai wins gold, Jeremy silver
Former world champion weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu notched up the women’s 49kg category gold medal to open India’s account at the 6th Qatar International Cup.
The 25-year-old Chanu won gold with an effort of 194kg in the Olympic qualifying silver level event, the points from which will come in handy when the final rankings for 2020 Tokyo Olympics cut are done.
To qualify for Tokyo, a weightlifter must compete in at least one event in each of the three periods of six months (spread over November 2018 to April 2020), at least six events overall and in at least one gold and another silver level event.
In the men’s 67kg category, India’s Jeremy Lalrinnunga won the silver medal with a total lift of 306kg (140kg in snatch and 166kg in clean and jerk). Chanu’s performance on Friday was, however, way below her personal best of 201kg which she lifted during this year’s World Championships in Thailand.
The 2018 Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Indian managed to register only one clean lift in both the snatch and clean and jerk categories.
She manged to lift 83kg in her second attempt in snatch event but then failed to clear 87kg in her final try.
In the clean and jerk section, Chanu lifted 111kg in her first attempt but was unable to heave 115kg and116kg in her finaltwo attempts.
The French duo of Anais Michel (172kg) and Manon Lorentz (165kg) took home the silver and bronze medals respectively. PTI
World Championship
Mirabai Lifts 201 Kg, Four Times Her Body Weight
Sabi Hussain, Sep 20, 2019: The Times of India
Mirabai Saikhom Chanu failed to clinch a medal at the World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand on Thursday, but achieved what no other Indian woman weightlifter has been able to accomplish so far – lift a total that was more than four times her body weight.
Mirabai came agonisingly close to a podium finish before settling for a fourth-place finish in the 49kg category. In the process, she became the first woman weightlifter from the country to breach the magic mark of 200kg – she lifted a total of 201 (87 in snatch and 114 in clean and jerk) in her weight category. She surpassed her personal best of 199kg, which she had achieved at the Asian championships in Ningbo, China this April.
China’s Jiang Huihua (total 212 – 94 snatch and 118 clean and jerk) won the gold medal, while silver went to another Chinese lifter, Hou Zhihui (total 211 – 94 snatch and 117 clean and jerk) and North Korea’s Song Gum (total 204 – 89 snatch and 115 clean and jerk) settled for bronze. Mirabai’s fourth finish in the 33-strong field did a world of good to her Tokyo Olympics qualification chances. The Pattaya Worlds is a qualifying meet and performances in the event will hold much significance when global rankings in each weight category will be released by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) at the end of the qualification cycle in April 2020.
Mirabai is at present ranked third in the world in her 49kg category and she is almost certain to travel to Tokyo being the country’s No.1 in her weight division. A country (read Indian weightlifting body) can nominate only one weightlifter in each qualified weight category for the Olympics and there is little doubt that entry would be of Mirabai. In Olympics, each weight category will have a total of 14 lifters (13 those who will qualify based on world rankings and one from the host nation i.e. Japan).
Mirabai’s coaches have planned two more competitions in coming months, which will fall in the Olympic qualification cycle, to enable her to continue in the same position. “Lifting a total in excess of 200kg is generally considered a safe mark for a lifter since not many, apart from Chinese and Koreans, have bene able to breach that figure in this weight category,” India’s chief national weightlifting coach Vijay Sharma told TOI from Pattaya.
“It’s been just a few months since Mirabai has started competing again. She had suffered a careerthreatening back injury in 2018, which kept her out of the arena for nine months. We don’t want to rush her into heavy training. She recently lifted a total of 203kg during a training session in Patiala and we wanted her to lift more than 200kg at the Worlds. Our focus is to get her lift a total of 210kg closer to the Tokyo Olympics,” said Sharma.
2020
Jeremy sets national record
Jeremy bags gold with national record, February 4, 2020: The Times of India
Kolkata:
Youth Olympic champion Jeremy Lalrinnunga was not at his best but the teenager still bettered his clean and jerk record to clinch the men’s 67kg title in the 72nd men’s and 35th womens’ Senior National Weightlifting Championships here on Monday.
The Mizoram lifter, who became the first Indian to win a gold at the Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires in 2018, lifted 132kg after two failed attempts but he was at his best in clean and jerk to lift 167kg en route to a total of 299kg.
The effort still was way short of his personal best of 306kg recorded at the International Qatar Cup in December last year. AGENCIES
Senior National Championships
Mirabai best woman lifter at senior Nationals
Kolkata: Chandrakant Mali of Services smashed three records to take the concluding day honours even as Railways reigned supreme, grabbing both the men’s and women’s trophies at the Senior National Weightlifting Championships here on Friday. Former world champion Mirabai Chanu, who had shattered three records to win women’s 49kg title, was adjudged the Best Senior Women’s Lifter with 865.796 ‘Robi points’. Youth Olympic champion Jeremy Lalrinnunga, who created a record in clean and jerk on way to winning the men’s 67kg for Services, became the Best Senior Men’s Lifter with 658.962 points.
Mirabai betters own national mark
'Mirabai betters own national mark, wins gold
Kolkata: Mirabai Chanu on Tuesday bettered her own national record enroute to winning the ongoing senior National Weightlifting Championships in Kolkata. Mirabai lifted a total of 203kg to win the 49kg gold, bettering her previous record of 201 which she had achieved at the World Championships in Thailand last year. The 25-year-old lifted 88kgs in snatch and 115 kg in clean and jerk. The Nationals serve as a testing ground for Chanu and other leading weightlifters ahead of the Olympic gold event Asian Championships that will be held in April in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan. Earlier, Youth Olympic champion Jeremy Lalrinnunga (17) bettered his clean and jerk record to win the men’s 67kg title.
2021
Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships
Jeremy Lalrinnunga wins gold
Dec 10, 2021: The Times of India
TASHKENT: India's teenage weightlifting sensation Jeremy Lalrinnunga could not breach his personal best mark but the effort of 305kg was enough to win the gold medal in the men's 67kg category even as Achinta Sheuli became the 73kg champion at the Commonwealth Championships.
Lalrinnunga, the 2018 Youth Olympics gold medallist, finished with a best effort of 305kg (141kg+164kg) in the men's 67kg event. His personal best stands at 306kg (140kg+166kg) which came in 2019.
Meanwhile, Sheuli claimed the top place on the podium with an effort of 316kg (143 + 173) in the 73kg category. He had won a silver in Junior World Championships in May.
The 19-year-old Lalrinnunga also created a national record in the snatch event enroute his podium finish but was unable to do the same in the clean and jerk section where he failed to lift 168kg.
In the World Championships which are being held simultaneously with the Commonwealth Championship, the Mizo teenager was placed fourth in snatch and seventh overall.
Jeremy had suffered a knee injury in April during the Asian Championships. He had finished fourth at the Junior World Championship in May but was unable to make the cut for the Tokyo Olympics.
The Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships also serve as qualifying event of the 2022 Commonwealth Gamez in Birmingham.
The gold medalists in each weight category in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships directly qualify for the 2022 CWG and the rest will qualify through Commonwealth rankings.
Junior World Championships
Sheuli breaks 6 records, wins silver
Achinta Sheuli broke six national weightlifting records, including three in the senior group, on his way to silver-medal winning performance in the men's 73kg category of the Junior World Championships in Tashkent
