New Delhi [India], June 27 (ANI): Olympic medallist Mirabai Chanu will lead the Indian weightlifting contingent on the Commonwealth Games 2026 in Glasgow after being named within the nationwide squad for the multi-sport occasion, based on Olympics.com.
The two-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist will compete within the girls’s 48kg class, a division wherein she has beforehand loved important success on the worldwide stage.
Mirabai Chanu, one in all India’s most adorned weightlifters, has received three Commonwealth Games medals so far–gold in Gold Coast 2018 (48kg), gold in Birmingham 2022 (49kg) and silver in Glasgow 2014 (48kg).
A former world champion and Olympic silver medallist at Tokyo 2020, the 31-year-old final competed on the nationwide championships in Modinagar in February, the place she clinched the title within the 48kg class.
She, nevertheless, missed the Asian Weightlifting Championships in May as she recovered from a shoulder damage sustained earlier this yr.
Chanu will likely be joined by fellow Birmingham 2022 medallists Bindyarani Devi and Harjinder Kaur, who will compete within the girls’s 58kg and 69kg classes respectively. Both had received silver medals within the earlier version of the Games.
In the boys’s part, Commonwealth Games 2022 bronze medallist Lovepreet Singh will headline India’s problem within the +110kg class.
Rishikanta Singh (60kg), Ajaya Babu (79kg) and Dilbag Singh (94kg) will make their Commonwealth Games debuts in Glasgow.
The weightlifting occasions on the Commonwealth Games 2026 are scheduled to happen from July 26 to 30 on the SEC Armadillo.
India has maintained a robust file in Commonwealth Games weightlifting in latest editions, ending among the many prime nations in each Gold Coast 2018 and Birmingham 2022, the place Indian lifters secured 9 medals, together with 5 golds.India’s weightlifting crew for the Commonwealth Games 2026
Women: Mirabai Chanu (48kg), Gyaneshwari Yadav (53kg), Bindyarani Devi (58kg), Harjinder Kaur (69kg), Sanjana (77kg), Martina Devi (+86kg)
Men: Rishikanta Singh (60kg), M Raja (65kg), Ajaya Babu (79kg), Dilbag Singh (94kg), Lovepreet Singh (+110kg). (ANI)