Ajay Singh gained India’s third gold medal on the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships right here by profitable the lads’s 81kg class.
Singh lifted a complete of 322 kg and in addition set a nationwide file within the snatch (147 kg) on ​​Sunday night time.
He turned the third Indian weightlifter to immediately qualify for subsequent 12 months’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Jeremy Lalrinnunga (67kg) and Achinta Shuli (73kg) have already certified for the 2022 Commonwealth Games by profitable gold medals of their respective competitions.
Gold winners within the all-white classes of this championship can qualify immediately for the 2022 Birmingham Commonwealth Games, whereas the remainder could make it to the Games by way of rankings.
In the ladies’s 71kg class, Harjinder Kaur and Lalchhanhimi on Monday gained silver and bronze with complete lifts of 211kg (90+121) and 209kg (90+119) respectively.
Poppy Hazarika additionally gained silver in ladies’s 59kg by lifting a complete of 189kg (84+105).
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
