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.
𝙁𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙩𝙝 #B2022 𝙢𝙚𝙙𝙖𝙡 𝙛𝙤𝙧 #𝙏𝙚𝙖𝙢𝙄𝙣𝙙𝙞𝙖 🎇👏Weightlifter Bindyarani Devi baggage a🥈at @birminghamcg22 with a career-best pe… https://t.co/x2yhtNgAcM
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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.
𝙂𝙊𝙇𝘿 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙈𝙞𝙧𝙖𝙗𝙖𝙞 𝘾𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙪 🥇🇮🇳#TeamIndia’s first gold on the @birminghamcg22 Commonwealth Video games comes within the girls’s… https://t.co/ugtbaaObUe
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“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.
𝙂𝙧𝙞𝙩. 𝙋𝙖𝙞𝙣. 𝙂𝙡𝙤𝙧𝙮. 👊Sanket Sargar refused to surrender even after hurting his proper elbow on the second clear and j… https://t.co/F3r76cZ0mr
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🇮🇳 #TeamIndia’s Gururaja Poojary dedicates his #B2022 🥉 within the males’s 61kg weightlifting to his spouse Soujanya🏋🏽♂️ 😊… https://t.co/aBzDd95aDA
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