Olympic Games Silver medallist Mirabai Chanu won the Silver medal in the World weightlifting championship despite battling an injury. The star Indian athlete is expected to be seen in action in the Asian weightlifting championship in May 2023.
Mirabai made a strong comeback from a lower back injury that had kept her out of action for nearly nine months post the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
On Thursday, Chanu lifted 85kg in snatch and 109kg in clean and jerk to total an impressive 194kg in the women's 48kg event to become the first Indian in over two decades to claim gold in the prestigious tournament.
Mirabai Chanu becomes only the second Indian (Karnam Malleswari was first) to win gold at world weightlifting championships. She lifts a new NR of 194kg (85snatch and 109 C&J) in women’s 48kg.
Wroclaw (Poland) : Chinese lifter Li Yajun won the gold at the women's 53-kilogram category competition of the World Weightlifting Championships Monday.The 20-year-old Chinese girl managed 100kg in the snatch, and then lifted 121kg in
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