World Weightlifting Championships 2022: Mirabai Chanu lifts combined weight of 200 kgs to win silver
Xtra Time Web Desk: India’s ace weight-lifter Mirabai Chanu settled for silver in the World Weightlifting Championships in Bagota, Columbia on Wednesday. The Tokyo Olympics silver medal winner lifted a combined weight of 200 kilos (snatch and clean & jerk). She lifted 87 kg in snatch category and 113 kg in clean & jerk category.
Jiang Huihua (206 kg) and Hou Zhihui (198 kg) of China, bagged gold and bronze medal respectively.
Chanu has been carrying a wrist injury and it was evident as she tried to lift in her second attempt at clean and jerk category. She had hurt her wrist during a training session in September. She participated in the National Games with the injury in October.
Chanu has a personal best of 207kg (88kg+119kg). She achieved the 119 kg lift in clean & jerk at the Asian Championships in April 2021. However her 88 kg best in the snatch event is still 8 kgs below the snatch world record of 96 kg achieved by China’s Hou Zhihui .
The 2022 Commonwealth Games gold medal winner has been trying to breach the 90kg mark in the snatch category since 2020. But an injury in back coupled with a wrist injury has been causing a concern.
The World Championships are the first qualification event for the Paris 2024 Olympics.
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Karla Gleichauf
12 May 2017 at 05:28 pm
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment
M Shyamalan
12 May 2017 at 05:28 pm
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment
Liz Montano
12 May 2017 at 05:28 pm
On the other hand, we denounce with righteous indignation and dislike men who are so beguiled and demoralized by the charms of pleasure of the moment