Mirabai Chanu wins first gold for India at the CWG 2022

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30th Jul, 2022. 10:21 pm
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With a total lift of 197 kg in weightlifting for the Women’s 49 kg .
Division at the Commonwealth Games 2022, Olympic medalist.

Mirabai Chanu won India’s first gold medal. India has so far taken home three medals in this year’s Commonwealth Games: Gold, Silver, Bronze.

Weightlifter Sanket Mahadev Sargar won silver in the 55 Kg weight class earlier in the day, bringing India its first medal. To place second, the 21-year-old lifted a total of 248kg (113kg, 135kg).

In contrast, Indian weightlifter Gururaj Poojary earned a bronze medal in the Men’s 61 Kg weight division at the Commonwealth Games 2022 by lifting a total of 269 Kg.

Chanu won a silver medal in the 49kg division of the women’s weightlifting competition in the Tokyo Olympics the previous year. And with that, she became the first weightlifter from India to win an Olympic silver medal.

Chanu also became the second weightlifter from India to earn an Olympic medal, following Karnam Malleswari, who won bronze in the 69 kg division at the 2000 Sydney Olympics, the first time the weightlifting arena was available to female competitors.

Recall how India dominated Pakistan by a score of 5-0 in the medal rounds of the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022.