New Delhi [India], July 15 (ANI): The Tokyo 2020 Olympics silver medalist Mirabai Chanu will lead a five-member Indian contingent on the World Weightlifting Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Riyadh occasion might be a qualifying occasion for the 2024 Paris Olympics and might be held from September 4 to 17, as per Olympics.com.
Chanu might be competing in ladies’s 49 kg class. The two-time world championships medalist might be aiming for a gold. She gained gold in 2017 meet at Anaheim whereas needed to accept silver final 12 months in Bogota.
Bindyarani Devi, the 2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships gold medal winner, might be participating in ladies’s 55 kg occasion.
Chanu and Bindyarani are presently present process coaching at St Louis’ SQUAT University below Dr Aron Horschig.
The males’s group consists of 2022 Commonwealth Games champion Achinta Sheuli, who might be participating in 73 kg class. The present national-level champion Narayana Ajith, Shubham Todkar, (who secured the gold medal within the 61kg class on the ongoing Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships) can even be competing.
Youth Olympic Games champion and CWG gold medalist Jeremy Lalrinnunga might be lacking out on the occasion resulting from an damage.
This might be Chanu’s second competitors this 12 months. The 28-year-old lifter from Manipur had undergone five-month rehab followig a hip surgical procedure final 12 months in December. She managed to compete in May’s Asian Championships, however may handle solely sixth place.
The Championships might be a pre-cursor to Asian Games this 12 months as the identical group, aside from Todkar, will characterize India’s tricolour on the continental occasion, scheduled to happen from September 23 to October 8, in Hangzhou, China.
World Weightlifting Championships 2023: India team-Women: Mirabai Chanu (49kg), Bindyarani Devi (55kg)-Men: Shubham Todkar (61kg), Achinta Sheuli (73kg), Narayana Ajith (73kg). (ANI)