Indian lifters win 20 medals at Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships

Lovepreet Singh and Purnima Pandey finished on the podium on the final day as hosts India wrapped up the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships with a rich haul of 20 medals here on SundayIndian weightlifters won a silver and a bronze medal on the last day of the competitionIndia won nine gold as many silver and two bronze medals in totalHaving clinched the silver in the last edition Punjab lifter Lovepreet finished second best once again in the 109kg weight class after lifting a total of 341kg 154kg187kg which was below his 355kg 163kg192kg medalwinning effort during the Birmingham Commonwealth Games last yearThe CWG bronze medallist could have logged a better total had he not failed in his two snatch attempts of 158kgThe 25yearold a former junior Asian bronze medal winner just about managed to edge past Englishman Andrew Griffiths 340kg 155kg185kg who heaved a kilogram less than LovepreetGold medallist Taniela Tuisuva Rainibogi 363kg 163kg200kg of Fiji was competing with himself The 25yearold had secured the title with his first clean and jerk attempt of 188kg itself but went on to lift 195kg and 200kg respectivelyAlso Read Commonwealth Weightlifting Cships Ajith N crowned 73kg champion Ajay Singh completes gold medal hattrickThe other Indian lifter in action last editions champion Purnima bagged the bronze medal in the womens 87kg categoryPurnima lifted 227kg 102kg125kg two kilograms less than her 2021 total to grab the last spot on the podiumHowever she was no match for the Samoan duo of Luniarra Sipaia 262kg 110kg152kg and Lesila Fiapule 250kg 110kg140kg The two completed a 12 finish for the island nationSipaia and Fiapules total was a whopping 35kg and 23kg more than Purnimas effort respectivelyIn the final event of the tournament Indias Paramvir Singh and Keshav Bissa made it a onetwo for the hosts in the 109kg junior category while 37yearold 2018Commonwealth Games champion Sanele Mao of Samoa entertained everyone with a total effort of 380kg 170kg210kg in the senior competition to take home the gold medalIndian lifters assert dominanceIndian lifters reigned supreme in the fiveday tournament in all three categories youth junior and seniorIndia had fielded 19 lifters in the senior events out of which nine pulled off goldwinning performancesThe nine gold medallists were 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 81kgGyaneshwari who won the gold medal in the absence of Tokyo Olympic medallist Mirabai Chanu in the womens 49 kg event and Mukund were awarded the Best Lifters in the junior categorySamoas Don Opeloge 102kg who smashed three Commonwealth records and Jenly Wini Tegu 55kg of Soloman Islands were named the Best Lifters in the senior categoryIndia also swept the youth junior and senior mens and womens team awardsThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever