Aichi-Nagoya [Japan], September 23 (ANI): Olympic medallist and three-time Commonwealth Games gold medallist Mirabai Chanu clinched her maiden Asian Games medal after profitable silver within the girls’s 49kg weightlifting class on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026 on Wednesday.
After Karnam Malleshwari, Mirabai Chanu grew to become the 2nd Indian weightlifter to win a medal in all main worldwide weightlifting occasions, i.e. Olympics, Asian Games, Commonwealth Games, World Championships, Asian & Commonwealth Championships.
Chanu produced a robust efficiency within the competitors, recording a complete carry of 198kg. She accomplished all three of her snatch makes an attempt efficiently, lifting 83kg, 85kg and 87kg.
In the clear and jerk phase, the Indian weightlifter opened with a 107kg carry earlier than efficiently finishing her second try of 111kg to complete with a mixed whole of 198kg.
North Korea’s Ri Song Gum claimed the gold medal after dominating the occasion with a complete carry of 215kg, whereas Chanu secured silver together with her effort. Wijayana completed with the bronze medal.
The medal marked a historic achievement for Chanu, who had missed out on a podium end on the Hangzhou Asian Games 2023 after an damage pressured her to withdraw from her last clear and jerk try, leading to a fourth-place end.
Chanu, a Tokyo 2020 Olympic silver medallist, entered the competitors after profitable gold on the just lately concluded Commonwealth Games and added one other main medal to her illustrious profession.
The silver medal additionally added to India’s medal tally on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games because the nation continued its marketing campaign throughout a number of disciplines.Â
Meanwhile, India loved a profitable day on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games 2026, profitable medals in capturing, tender tennis and weightlifting, whereas athletes throughout kabaddi, boxing, squash, rowing, canoe dash and desk tennis produced sturdy performances.
Olympic medallist Mirabai Chanu clinched her maiden Asian Games medal after profitable silver within the girls’s 49kg weightlifting class. Chanu lifted a complete of 198kg, together with 87kg in snatch and 111kg in clear and jerk, to safe a historic podium end.
India additionally claimed two bronze medals in capturing. The girls’s skeet crew of Raiza Dhillon, Parinaaz Dhaliwal and Maheshwari Chauhan completed third with a mixed rating of 331, securing India’s first-ever medal within the girls’s skeet crew occasion on the Asian Games.
The males’s skeet crew comprising Anantjeet Singh Naruka, Mairaj Ahmed Khan and Bhavtegh Singh Gill additionally gained bronze after ending third with 346 factors. Naruka additional certified for the lads’s skeet particular person last.
In tender tennis, Jay Meena assured India of its first-ever Asian Games medal within the sport after reaching the lads’s singles semi-finals. Although Meena misplaced to Japan’s Takuya Kurosaka within the semi-final, he secured the bronze medal as all semi-finalists are assured a podium end.
Olympic medallist Manu Bhaker reached the ladies’s 10m air pistol last and completed fifth, whereas Suruchi Inder Singh and Esha Singh missed out on qualification for the medal spherical.
India’s kabaddi groups continued their sturdy run, with the ladies’s crew defeating Iran 37-23 in Group A after earlier beating Bangladesh. The males’s crew additionally registered a win over Bangladesh of their Group A encounter.
In boxing, Ankush superior to the spherical of 16 within the males’s 80kg class after defeating Bahrain’s Hamsa Vogel with a unanimous 5-0 victory.
In squash, Abhay Singh started his males’s singles marketing campaign with a dominant win over Thailand’s Arkaradet Arkarahirunya, profitable 11-1, 11-0, 11-2 within the spherical of 32.
India additionally progressed in rowing and canoe dash occasions. Balraj Panwar certified for the lads’s single sculls last, whereas Satnam Singh and Salman Khan superior to the lads’s double sculls last. The males’s kayak 4 500m crew of Harshwardhan Shaktawat, Varinder Singh, L Naocha Singh Oinam and Arun Singh additionally booked a spot within the last.
In canoe dash, Megha Pradeep certified for the ladies’s canoe single 200m semi-final, whereas Prasanna Kumar CS and Prohit Baroi superior to the lads’s kayak double 500m semi-final. Parvathy Geetha and Phairembam Soniya Devi additionally progressed within the girls’s kayak double 500m occasion.
Indian paddlers continued their profitable run in combined doubles. Manush Shah and Diya Chitale defeated Maldives’ Moosa-Aishath, whereas Yashaswini Ghorpade and Harmeet Desai defeated Hong Kong’s Yiu-Ng. Earlier, Indian pairs additionally registered wins over Maldives and Sri Lanka.
In fencing, GN Kumaresan exited within the males’s sabre spherical of 16 after shedding to Kazakhstan’s Artyom Sarkissyan, whereas Mina Devi Naorem, Ashitha Stalinraj and Karan Singh bowed out of their respective spherical of 32 matches.
In swimming, Benedicton Beniston completed thirteenth general within the males’s 100m butterfly heats, whereas Sajan Prakash didn’t begin the occasion. Vedaant Madhavan and Aneesh Sunil didn’t progress from the lads’s 200m freestyle heats.
In rowing, Gurbani Kaur, Aleena Anto, Tendenthoi Haobijam and Poonam certified for Final A within the girls’s 4 occasion, whereas Jaswinder Singh and Nitin Kumar superior to Final B within the males’s pair competitors.
In sepaktakraw, India defeated the Philippines 2-1 within the males’s crew regu Group B match however missed out on qualification for the subsequent stage.
India continued its medal cost throughout disciplines as competitors progressed on the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games. (ANI)