CWG 2022: IOA lauds Mirabai Chanu’s gold-winning feat, congratulates others | Commonwealth Video games 2022 Information – Instances of India

BIRMINGHAM: The Indian Olympic Affiliation (IOA) lauded record-breaking weightlifter Mirabai Chanu on successful the nation’s first gold medal on the ongoing Birmingham Commonwealth Video games.
Chanu, who gained silver on the Tokyo Olympic Video games final yr, defended her Commonwealth gold from the 2018 version with a record-breaking whole of 201kg (88kg + 113kg) within the 49kg class of ladies’s weightlifting on the Nationwide Exhibition Centre right here on Saturday.

Her gold took India’s medal tally to a few, with fellow weightlifters Sanket Sargar and Gururaja Poojary successful a silver and bronze earlier within the day within the males’s 55kg and 61kg classes, respectively.
Later, Bindyarani Devi gained the silver medal within the girls’s 55kg and sealed a fourth medal for the nation.

IOA appearing president Anil Khanna stated, “To be one of many strongest medal prospects and reside as much as the expectations isn’t straightforward, however Ms Mirabai Chanu has executed that with excellence and we’re very comfortable to see her and her assist system’s efforts come to fruition right this moment.
“Higher but, she challenged herself to aim the 90kg carry. Although the outcome wasn’t the specified one, Ms Chanu’s dedication to pushing the envelope and setting the bar larger as certainly one of India’s finest athletes is counseled by the IOA.

“We congratulate her and the opposite medallists, Mr Sanket Sargar, Mr Gururaja Poojary, and Ms Bindyarani Devi for performing with excellence of their respective classes,” added Khanna.