NEW DELHI: lovepreet singh and Purnima Pandey gained two medals at the ultimate day as India signed off the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships with a wealthy haul of 20 medals on Sunday. Indian gained a silver and a bronze medal at the closing day of the event.
India signed off with 9 gold, as many silver and two bronze medals in general.
Having clinched the silver within the closing version, Punjab lifter Lovepreet completed 2d easiest as soon as once more within the 109kg weight magnificence after lifting a complete of 341kg (154kg+187kg), which used to be beneath his 355kg (163kg+192kg) medal-winning effort throughout the Birmingham Commonwealth Games closing 12 months.
The CWG bronze medalist will have logged a greater general had he no longer failed in his two seize makes an attempt of 158kg.
The 25-year-old, a former junior Asian bronze medallist, with reference to controlled to edge previous Englishman Andrew Griffiths 340kg (155kg+185kg), who heaved a kilogram not up to Lovepreet.
Gold medalist Taniela Tuisuva Rainibogi 363kg (163kg+200kg) of Fiji used to be competing with herself. The 25-year-old had secured the name together with his first blank and jerk try of 188kg himself however went on to boost 195kg and 200kg respectively.
The different Indian lifter in motion, closing version’s champion Purnima bagged the bronze medal within the girls’s +87kg class.
Purnima lifted 227kg (102kg+125kg), two kilograms not up to her 2021 general, to clutch the closing spot at the podium.
However, she used to be no fit for the Samoan duo of Luniarra Sipaia 262kg (110kg+152kg) and Lesila Fiapule 250kg (110kg+140kg). The two finished a 1-2 end for the island country.
Sipaia and Fiapule’s general used to be a whopping 35kg and 23kg greater than Purnima’s respectively easily.
In the general tournament of the event, India’s Paramvir Singh and Keshav Bissa made it a one-two for the hosts within the +109kg junior class, whilst 37-year-old 2018 Commonwealth Games champion Sanele Mao of Samoa entertained everybody with a complete effort. of 380kg (170kg+210kg) within the senior festival to take house the gold medal.
INDIAN LIFTERS ASSERT DOMINANCE
Indian lifters reigned splendid within the five-day event in all 3 classes — adolescence, junior and senior.
India had fielded 19 lifters within the senior occasions out of which 9 pulled off gold-winning performances.
The 9 gold medalists have been Komal Kohar (45kg), Gyaneshwari Yadav (49kg), Popy Hazarika (59kg), S Nirupama (64kg), Vanshita Verma (81kg), Mukund Aher (55kg), Shubham Todkar (61kg), Ajith N ( 73kg) and Ajay Singh (81kg).
Gyaneshwari, who gained the gold medal within the absence of Tokyo Olympic medalist Mirabai Chanu within the girls’s 49 kg tournament, and Mukund, have been awarded the ‘Best Lifters,’ within the junior class.
Samoa’s Don Opeloge (102kg), who smashed 3 Commonwealth information, and Jenly Wini Tegu (55kg) of the Solomon Islands have been named the ‘Best Lifters’ within the senior class.
India additionally swept the adolescence, junior and senior males’s and girls’s workforce awards.
India signed off with 9 gold, as many silver and two bronze medals in general.
Having clinched the silver within the closing version, Punjab lifter Lovepreet completed 2d easiest as soon as once more within the 109kg weight magnificence after lifting a complete of 341kg (154kg+187kg), which used to be beneath his 355kg (163kg+192kg) medal-winning effort throughout the Birmingham Commonwealth Games closing 12 months.
The CWG bronze medalist will have logged a greater general had he no longer failed in his two seize makes an attempt of 158kg.
The 25-year-old, a former junior Asian bronze medallist, with reference to controlled to edge previous Englishman Andrew Griffiths 340kg (155kg+185kg), who heaved a kilogram not up to Lovepreet.
Gold medalist Taniela Tuisuva Rainibogi 363kg (163kg+200kg) of Fiji used to be competing with herself. The 25-year-old had secured the name together with his first blank and jerk try of 188kg himself however went on to boost 195kg and 200kg respectively.
The different Indian lifter in motion, closing version’s champion Purnima bagged the bronze medal within the girls’s +87kg class.
Purnima lifted 227kg (102kg+125kg), two kilograms not up to her 2021 general, to clutch the closing spot at the podium.
However, she used to be no fit for the Samoan duo of Luniarra Sipaia 262kg (110kg+152kg) and Lesila Fiapule 250kg (110kg+140kg). The two finished a 1-2 end for the island country.
Sipaia and Fiapule’s general used to be a whopping 35kg and 23kg greater than Purnima’s respectively easily.
In the general tournament of the event, India’s Paramvir Singh and Keshav Bissa made it a one-two for the hosts within the +109kg junior class, whilst 37-year-old 2018 Commonwealth Games champion Sanele Mao of Samoa entertained everybody with a complete effort. of 380kg (170kg+210kg) within the senior festival to take house the gold medal.
INDIAN LIFTERS ASSERT DOMINANCE
Indian lifters reigned splendid within the five-day event in all 3 classes — adolescence, junior and senior.
India had fielded 19 lifters within the senior occasions out of which 9 pulled off gold-winning performances.
The 9 gold medalists have been Komal Kohar (45kg), Gyaneshwari Yadav (49kg), Popy Hazarika (59kg), S Nirupama (64kg), Vanshita Verma (81kg), Mukund Aher (55kg), Shubham Todkar (61kg), Ajith N ( 73kg) and Ajay Singh (81kg).
Gyaneshwari, who gained the gold medal within the absence of Tokyo Olympic medalist Mirabai Chanu within the girls’s 49 kg tournament, and Mukund, have been awarded the ‘Best Lifters,’ within the junior class.
Samoa’s Don Opeloge (102kg), who smashed 3 Commonwealth information, and Jenly Wini Tegu (55kg) of the Solomon Islands have been named the ‘Best Lifters’ within the senior class.
India additionally swept the adolescence, junior and senior males’s and girls’s workforce awards.
(With inputs from PTI)