New Delhi [India], August 23 (ANI): Olympic medallist and former world champion Mirabai Chanu will lead India’s weightlifting squad on the Asian Games 2026 in Aichi-Nagoya, the place she’s going to intention to win the one main multi-sport medal lacking from her illustrious profession, based on Olympics.com.
The Asian Games are scheduled to be held in Japan from September 19 to October 4, with the weightlifting competitors set to happen from September 22 to twenty-eight on the Tokai Citizens Gymnasium.
Mirabai Chanu will compete within the girls’s 49kg class and can look to safe her maiden Asian Games medal after narrowly lacking out on the Hangzhou 2023 version, the place she completed fourth.
A medal in Aichi-Nagoya would full Mirabai’s medal assortment throughout the three main multi-sport occasions — the Olympics, Asian Games and Commonwealth Games. She had gained her third consecutive gold medal and fourth Commonwealth Games medal total final month.
The Indian weightlifting squad options 4 girls and one man. Commonwealth Games 2026 silver medallists Gyaneshwari Yadav and Harjinder Kaur will compete within the girls’s 53kg and 69kg classes, respectively, whereas Seram Nirupama Devi will take part within the 61kg division, based on Olympics.com.
Rishikanta Singh Chanambam is the lone male weightlifter within the squad and can compete within the 60kg class. He gained a silver medal on the Commonwealth Games final month.
India has gained 14 weightlifting medals on the Asian Games to date, together with 5 silver and 9 bronze medals, however is but to assert a gold medal within the occasion.
Indian weightlifting staff for Asian Games 2026Mirabai Chanu (girls’s 49kg)Gyaneshwari Yadav (girls’s 53kg)Seram Nirupama Devi (girls’s 61kg)Harjinder Kaur (girls’s 69kg)Rishikanta Singh Chanambam (males’s 60kg). (ANI)