New Delhi [India], October 27 (ANI): Olympic medallist Mirabai Chanu will spearhead India’s marketing campaign on the 2026 World Weightlifting Championships, scheduled to happen on the Ningbo Olympic Sports Centre in China from October 27 to November 8.
Indian followers will be capable of watch the championships dwell by way of streaming. The competitors in Ningbo will mark the primary of 10 qualifying occasions on the street to the LA 2028 Olympic Games, as per Olympics.com.Â
To stay eligible for the Olympic Qualification Ranking (OQR), weightlifters should register three complete outcomes (snatch plus clear and jerk) throughout the first qualification interval and two throughout the second, all inside the identical Olympic weight class.
The OQR will contemplate every athlete’s three greatest complete outcomes from the primary interval and two greatest outcomes from the second. Each kilogram lifted will depend as one rating level.
At the top of the qualification course of, the highest eight eligible weightlifters in every Olympic weight class within the last OQR will safe quota locations for the LA 2028 Olympics, allotted to them by title.
More than 500 athletes are anticipated to compete on the World Weightlifting Championships in Ningbo.
Mirabai Chanu, 32, will compete within the ladies’s 53kg class, one of many six ladies’s weight lessons included within the weightlifting programme for the LA 2028 Olympics.
Mirabai has moved as much as the 53kg class for the LA 2028 Olympic cycle, because the 49kg division, during which she received silver on the Tokyo 2020 Olympics and competed at Paris 2024, has been dropped from the Olympic weightlifting programme.
World Weightlifting Championships 2026: India squad:Â
Women: Mirabai Chanu (53kg), Gyaneshwari Yadav (53kg), Usha (61kg), Nirupama Devi Seram (61kg)
Men: Lovepreet Singh (+110kg). (ANI)Â