India’s Bindyarani Devi raised her sport to safe silver within the ladies’s 55kg class, offering the nation’s fourth weightlifting medal in as many classes on the Commonwealth Video games right here. Quickly after Mirabai Chanu’s gold, the 23-year-old created a Video games file by lifting 116kg within the clear and jerk after a private better of 86kg within the snatch part, totalling 202 kg on Saturday. The gold medal expectedly went to Nigeria’s Adijat Adenike Olarinoye, who lifted 203kg (92kg+111kg). She additionally smashed the Video games file in snatch and whole effort. Native favorite England’s Fraser Morrow bagged the bronze with a 198kg effort (89kg+109kg).
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“It’s my first CWG and I really feel very glad in regards to the silver and in regards to the Video games file as properly,” Bindyarani mentioned. Like Chanu, Bindyarani too hails from Manipur. She had received the Commonwealth Championships gold in 2019 earlier than getting a silver within the 2021 version. Daughter of a farmer who additionally owns grocery store, Bindyarani took up weightlifting attributable to her brief peak.
“I used to be into taekwondo from 2008 to 2012 after that I shifted to weightlifting. I had a peak drawback so needed to shift. Everybody informed my peak is right for weightlifting. So I modified.”
Bindyarani was within the bronze medal end after the snatch part with a private better of 86kg, behind Olarinoye (92kg) and Fraer (89kg). The Indian made an unsuccessful second try for 115 kg earlier than lifting a kilogram extra to raise her to silver medal place from bronze as Morrow fluffed her remaining 115kg try. Earlier within the day, Chanu had offered India its first gold whereas Sanket Sargar and Gururaja Poojary had clinched silver and bronze medals respectively.