Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], August 27 (ANI): India’s Ajith Narayana delivered a stellar efficiency to clinch the gold medal within the males’s 71kg weight class on the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2025 on Wednesday. The 26-year-old lifted a mixed whole of 317kg (145kg snatch + 172kg clear and jerk), not solely securing the highest podium end but additionally reserving his ticket to the Commonwealth Games (CWG) 2026 in Glasgow, as per Olympics.com.
The competitors was fiercely contested, with Nigeria’s African Games champion Joseph Edidiong Umoafia, who settled for silver with a complete of 316kg (146kg + 170kg), lacking out on gold by only one kilogram. Ezekiel Moses from Nauru bagged the bronze medal with a carry of 290kg (135kg + 155kg).
Ajith began sturdy within the snatch, efficiently clearing 145kg on his first try. However, his subsequent makes an attempt at 148kg and 150kg didn’t go as deliberate. In the clear and jerk, he opened confidently with 172kg to regain the lead however did not convert his subsequent two makes an attempt at 177kg.
This gold provides to Ajith’s rising record of achievements. At the National Weightlifting Championships final 12 months, he competed within the males’s 73kg division and set a nationwide file with a mixed carry of 318kg (140kg + 178kg), clinching the gold medal there as properly.
India additionally had purpose to have a good time within the girls’s occasions, the place Nirupama Devi put up a powerful present within the 63kg class, profitable silver with a complete carry of 217kg (91kg + 126kg).
India’s marketing campaign on the thirtieth version of the championships started on a excessive notice on Monday when Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Mirabai Chanu clinched gold within the girls’s 48kg class, making certain her personal qualification for Glasgow 2026.
The ongoing championships in Ahmedabad characteristic over 300 lifters from 31 nations, with India already making a powerful assertion on the worldwide stage. (ANI)