The legend of Mirabai Chanu continued to develop as she added a second World Championships medal to her much-decorated trophy cupboard whereas different Indian lifters too revelled within the glory of a power-packed efficiency on the Commonwealth Video games in 2022. They are saying profitable is a behavior and Mirabai has actually made one. The lifter from Manipur expectedly bossed the 49kg area on the Commonwealth Video games to present India the primary gold medal of the Birmingham version. It was not a query of if, however the margin of gold medal win as Mirabai was assured of title the second she entered the not-so-competitive area.
Such was her domination that the second-place Mauritian Roilya Ranaivosoa completed 29 kgs behind her. It was Mirabai’s third CWG medal and second consecutive gold. The diminutive lifter ended the 12 months with a bang, fetching a silver on the world championships, as soon as once more, giving everybody a grasp class in grit and dedication.
If she battled painful menstrual cramps to win the Tokyo Olympics silver final 12 months, Mirabai overcame a wrist concern to assert her second world championships medal, including to her 2017 gold.
She lifted a complete of 200 kg with 87kg in snatch and 113kg in clear & jerk. The clear and jerk effort additionally fetched her a silver medal within the part.
However as one other 12 months handed, the much-anticipated 90kg snatch raise continued to elude her. And that’s maybe the largest downer for the tenacious Mirabai, who has been making an attempt to tug off that one raise since 2020 as increasingly opponents obtain the feat within the run-up to the Paris Olympics.
Commonwealth Video games excessive
Earlier in July-August, the senior weightlifters set the ball rolling at Birmingham with Mirabai happening a record-smashing spree.
Information continued to tumble with Jeremy Lalrinnunga claiming his maiden CWG gold medal, obliterating the Video games file in snatch and complete weight with an mixture of 300kg (140kg+160kg).
Achinta Sheuli too shattered the Video games file in snatch and complete raise on his technique to gold with an effort of 313kg(143kg+170kg).
Indian weightlifters bagged a complete of 10 medals, together with three golds as many silvers, and 4 bronze.
Whereas Mirabai (48kg), Jeremy (73kg) and Achinta (77kg) took house gold medals, Sanket Sagar (55kg), Vikas Thakur (96kg), S Bindyrani (55kg) fetched silver medals, and P Gururaja (61kg), Lovepreet Singh (109kg), Gurdeep Singh (+109kg) and Harjinder Kaur (71kg) added a shade of bronze.
India topped the medals tally within the sport within the event.
However the lifters, barring Mirabai, weren’t in a position to take ahead the CWG momentum. Most of them skipped the Asian and World Championships and for many who did not, the gulf between them and the opposite lifters all over the world was seen.
Aside from Mirabai, the 4 different Indian lifters had been positioned in teams C and D, failing to complete even within the high 20 within the worlds earlier this month.
The lifters who register the very best entry weight are positioned in group A, adopted by B and so forth.
First junior world champion
In one other spotlight, India received its maiden junior world champion within the sport in Harshada Garud. Competing within the 45kg occasion, the 19-year-old achieved one thing that even the likes of Mirabai could not in her junior profession — an elusive gold medal within the prestigious event in Might.
Persevering with her good run, Harshada went on so as to add a bronze medal on the Asian Junior championship a few months later in July with a greater complete effort. Her complete mixture of 157kg (69kg+88kg) was 4 kilograms higher than her junior world’s effort.
Hope for an Olympic future
Dismayed by many years of rampant doping, bribery, vote-rigging and corruption at weightlifting’s highest ranges, the Worldwide Olympic Committee (IOC) lastly took motion final 12 months.
Weightlifting misplaced greater than half of its athlete quotas for the reason that 2016 Olympic Video games and can have solely 120 locations in Paris. It’s at the moment not part of the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics.
However up to now 12 months, the Worldwide Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has taken steps to make sure the game stays part of the Olympics roster.
To beat doping which has marred the game for lengthy, the IWF Board voted unanimously to cease nations from competing if they won’t conduct out of competitors checks on their athletes.
It saved alive weightlifting’s probabilities of that includes within the LA Video games.
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