Weightlifting News

Indian weightlifter Harshada Sharad Garud won gold at the IWF Junior World Championships in Greece, to open India's account on the opening day of the competition.

The 27-year-old Mirabai Chanu will now compete in the 49kg category. Chanu had qualified for the CWG in 49kg, in which she won the silver medal at the Tokyo Olympics last year, owing to her top rank, as well as the 55kg weight class, for which she competed in a qualifier.

Vikas Thakur and Venkat Rahul Ragala have qualified for the Commonwealth Games after winning gold and bronze medals in the men's 96kg event at an event in Singapore.

India recorded its best-ever medal haul at a single edition of the Olympic Games after finishing with a total of seven medals in Tokyo.

Mirabai Chanu, a former world champion, had left the 2016 Rio Olympics in tears after failing to log a legitimate lift but five years on, she displayed the brilliant composure in Tokyo for a historic silver medal to bury the ghosts of the past.

Commonwealth Championships: Jeremy Lalrinnunga came out on top in the men's 67kg category in Tashkent.

Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship: Bindyarani Devi lifted a total of 198kg to win silver in her category.

Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu is set to miss the upcoming World Championship and Commonwealth Senior Championship.

Mirabai Chanu had clinched the gold at the Weightlifting World Championships in 2017 but since then a medal at the event has eluded her.

Union Home Minister Amit Shah on Saturday felicitated Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu on Saturday.

Tokyo Olympics: Mirabai Chanu, who won a weightlifting silver medal, will be honoured by Amit Shah during the 51st Raising Day celebrations of the Bureau of Police Research and Development (BPRD).

Weightlifter Polina Guryeva, who won silver for Turkmenistan at the Summer Games in Tokyo in the women's 59 kg category, was gifted an apartment, a car and $50,000 in cash as she became country's first-ever Olympic medallist.

Weightlifting is all but certain to be removed from the Olympic Games programme unless the present leadership stand down, USA weightlifting CEO Phil Andrews said.

Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu took to Instagram to share pictures of her meet-up with cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar.

Union Minister of Law and Justice Kiren Rijiju said India's athletes will be given a grand welcome upon their return from the Tokyo Olympics.

Mirabai Chanu celebrated her birthday with her family after returning from the Tokyo Olympics with a silver medal.

Mirabai Chanu met and treated 150 truckers in Manipur as they had given her a lift from her village to Imphal for her training every day for years.

Tokyo Olympics: Weightlifter Hidilyn Diaz of Philippines was hailed after securing country's first Olympic gold medal as she smashed her personal best with final clean and jerk of 127kg in the women's 55kg category.