New Delhi [India], December 4 (ANI): Five Indian weightlifters might be representing the nation on the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) Grand Prix II Weightlifting competitors ranging from Monday in Doha, Qatar.
The occasion is a qualifier for the 2024 Paris Olympics and can conclude on December 14, as per Olympics.com.
The competitions might be held in ten totally different weight classes for males: 55kg, 61kg, 67kg, 73kg, 81kg, 89kg, 96kg, 102kg, 109kg and 109kg and ladies: 45kg, 49kg, 55kg, 59kg, 64kg, 71kg, 76kg, 81kg, 87kg and 87kg.
India might be sending a complete of 5 lifters, together with two girls. National-level champion Ajith Narayan and Commonwealth Games gold medalist Achinta Sheuli might be within the males’s 73 kg.
Indian lifter Mirabai Chanu, a Tokyo Olympics 2020 silver medalist and 2017 World Champion might be attending the occasion for a weigh-in however wouldn’t carry as she is recovering from an harm sustained throughout the Asian Games in Hangzhou again in October, the place she completed fourth.
Chanu had accomplished it in World Weightlifting Championships 2023 earlier this yr. As per the principles, lifters need to attend the 2023 World Championships and the 2024 World Cup to remain eligible for qualifying for the 2024 Paris Olympics.
A lifter has to take part in not less than three of the next occasions barring the 2 obligatory tournaments- the 2022 World Championships, the 2023 Continental Championships, the 2023 Grand Prix 1, the 2023 Grand Prix II and the 2024 Continental Championships.
The IWF Grand Prix II is without doubt one of the qualifying occasions for the 2024 Olympics and the performances of Olympic weight-class lifers might be rewarded within the type of OQR (Olympic Qualification Ranking) factors.
These factors might be based mostly on the very best whole outcomes (snatch clear and jerk) the athletes handle to carry in qualifying competitions. The high 10 athletes based mostly on OQR, which may have one highest-ranked athlete per nation from every weight class, will get Olympic quotas for his or her nations after the qualification cycle ends in April 2024.
Bindyarani Devi, a Commonwealth Games silver medallist, will play in non-Olympic girls’s 55kg weight division. CWG bronze medalist Gurdeep Singh may even be in motion within the 109kg – one other non-Olympic weight division.
-IWF Grand Prix II Weightlifting 2023: India crewMirabai Chanu – girls’s 49kg (Group C)Bindyrani Devi – girls’s 55kg (Group A)Achinta Sheuli – males’s 73kg (Group B)Ajith Narayan – males’s 73kg (Group C)Gurdeep Singh – males’s 109kg (Group B)IWF Grand Prix II Weightlifting 2023: Schedule and dwell begin instances for Indian liftersAs per Indian Standard Times (IST)December 4, MondayGirls’s 49kg (Group C) – 4:00 PMWomen’s 49kg (Group B) – 6:00 PMDecember 5, TuesdayWomen’s 49kg (Group A) – 8:30 PMDecember 6, WednesdayMen’s 73kg (Group C) – 3:30 PMWomen’s 55kg (Group A) – 5:30 PMDecember 7, ThursdayMen’s 73kg (Group B) – 3:00 PMMen’s 73kg (Group A) – 8:30 PMDecember 14, ThursdayMen’s 109kg (Group B) – 1:00 PMMen’s 109kg (Group A) – 6:30 PM. (ANI)