New Delhi [India], April 28 (ANI): In her first worldwide competitors of the yr, Tokyo 2020 medalist Mirabai Chanu will lead a six-person Indian group on the Asian Weightlifting Championships 2023 in Jinju, South Korea, from May 3 to 13.
The Indian weightlifters’ second qualifying competitors for the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 would be the continental championship, as per Olympics.com.
Based on their mixed outcomes (snatch clear and jerk), the weightlifters participating in these qualifying occasions will have the ability to elevate their Olympic Qualification Ranking (OQR).
After the qualification course of for the Paris Olympics concludes on April 28, 2024, the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will launch the listing of certified athletes.
In her most up-to-date competitors, Mirabai Chanu positioned second within the ladies’s 49kg class on the World Weightlifting Championships 2022 in Colombia in December. To deal with her shoulder and again illnesses, Chanu attended a five-month rehabilitation plan at NIS Patiala. She will maintain competing within the 49 kg division.
Mirabai Chanu has received gold on the Commonwealth Games, a world championship, and an Olympic silver medal, however her finest continental end to but has been bronze on the 2020 Asian Championships in Tashkent.
For the Asian championships, injured athletes Jeremy Lalrinnunga (males’s 67 kg) and Achinta Sheuli (males’s 73 kg) can even be competing once more. Since hurting his decrease again and thigh muscle mass throughout his gold-winning efficiency on the Commonwealth Games 2022, Lalrinnunga has not participated in any aggressive occasions.
Prior to the graduation of his competitors on the international weightlifting championships in December, Sheuli, nevertheless, skilled a hamstring pull. In the 73 kg class, he’s additionally a Commonwealth Games champion.
Bindyarani Devi, who took house silver within the ladies’s 55kg division on the 2022 Commonwealth Games, will maintain competing on this division.
The earlier Asian Weightlifting Championships have been held in Bahrain’s Manama final yr. There, Harshada Garud took house the bronze medal within the ladies’s 45kg division. India obtained only one medal total.Asian Weightlifting Championships 2023: India squad-Women: Mirabai Chanu (49kg), Bindyarani Devi (55kg)-Men: Shubham Todkar (61kg), Jeremy Lalrinnunga (67kg), Achinta Sheuli (73kg), Narayana Ajith (73kg). (ANI)