India's star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu once again rose to the occasion and secure a silver medal in women's49kg event at the Weightlifting World Championships in Bogota on Tuesday night. She lifted a total of 200kg (87kg in snatch and 113kg in clean and jerk), a touch lower than her personal best.
At the end of a year when weightlifting news has been dominated by
reforms, election controversies, politics and doping, the athletes
return to centre stage tomorrow at the 2022 International
Weightlifting Federation World Championships in Bogotá, Colombia.
BEIJING, Dec. 3 (Xinhua) China 20-member weightlifting national team, including six Olympic champions, set out Saturday for the 2022 International Weightlift
It won’t be surprising if diminutive Mirabai Chanu, stands atop the podium, flashing her radiant smile, after winning a gold medal at the Commonwealth Games on July 30. After all, she will enter Birmingham, as title favourite. Chanu’s personal best is 207kg (88kg+119kg) which is far better than the best effort of Nigeria’s Stella Kingsley, who will be her nearest rival and has managed only 168kg (72kg+96kg) till date. Chanu’s legend has only grown since the last edition of the […]