Ahmedabad (Gujarat) [India], August 27 (ANI): India’s Bindyarani Devi, Muthupandi Raja and Sneha Soren dazzled on the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2025 in Ahmedabad by clinching silver medals on Tuesday. However, the headlines belonged to 17-year-old Koyel Bar, who stole the highlight by breaking the youth world information, in keeping with Olympics.com.
Bindyarani, who contested within the ladies’s 58kg, lifted 206kg (91kg snatch+115kg clear and jerk) to bag the silver medal. She progressed by means of 85kg, 88kg, and 91kg in snatch and cleared 110kg and 115kg in clear and jerk. With the stakes working excessive, she fumbled in her last 122kg try and settled for the second spot whereas Australia’s Kiana Elliott took gold with 212kg (100kg+112kg).
Bindyarani is a silver medallist on the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham within the 55kg division. She can be a former Commonwealth champion, having gained gold within the 2019 and silver within the 2021 editions.
Koyel Bar left the world surprised together with her record-shattering efficiency within the ladies’s 53kg youth class. She lifted a complete of 192kg (85kg + 107kg), setting new youth world information in complete and clear and jerk. The teenager proved to be a promising expertise, as she lifted greater than her competitor, Sneha, within the senior class to clinch the youth and junior titles within the ladies’s 53 kg class.
Coming to the boys’s class, Muthupandi Raja got here agonisingly near the gold medal within the 65kg occasion, ending with 296kg (128kg+168kg), simply shy of Malaysia’s Muhamad Aznil Bin Bidin, who lifted 297kg (125kg+172kg) to take the gold medal. Papua New Guinea’s Moria Baru adopted within the third spot to say the bronze with 292kg (127kg+165kg).
In the senior ladies’s 53kg, Nigeria’s Omolola Onome Didih took the spot on the prime of the rostrum with a carry of 197kg (90kg+107kg) to return dwelling with gold. In comparability, India’s Sneha Soren lifted 185kg (81kg+104kg) to say silver.
The thirtieth version of the event options over 300 lifters from 31 nations. Tokyo 2020 silver medallist Mirabai Chanu kicked off India’s marketing campaign with a gold medal within the ladies’s 48kg class on Monday, and secured the qualification for the next 12 months’s Commonwealth Games. (ANI)