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India's Gurdeep Singh won a bronze medal in the men's 109+ kg weightlifting final, lifting a total of 390 kg. The silver in the event went to New Zealand's David Andrew Liti, who picked 394kg, while the gold went to Pakistan's Muhammad Noor Dastgir Butt. The Pakistani lifter created a new Games record with a total lift of 405kg.
Emily Campbell roared to a record-breaking gold medal in the women’s weightlifting competition at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, while Evie Richards rode to victory in the women’s mountain biking.
Indian weightlifter Purnima Pandey finished a disappointing sixth in the women's 87kg event at the Commonwealth Games on Wednesday. Pandey managed just two lifts, which is the bare minimum required to register a total, for an aggregate of 228kg (103kg 125kg) at the NEC. In her last two clean and jerk attempts of 133kg, the barbell slipped out of her hands before she could complete 'clean'.
England's Emily Campbell turned in a stunning performance to take gold in the +87kg weighlifting event at the Commonwealth Games. The 28-year-old from Nottingham broke records in both the snatch and the clean and jerk lifts to finish with an overall Games-record total of 286kg. Ad/> That was enough to see off Feagaiga Stowers, the defending champion from Samoa, who could only manage a combined 268kg.
Emily Campbell strode to the stage sporting red and white bunches and some candid advice from weightlifting royalty before delivering a record-breaking performance to add Commonwealth Games gold to her Olympic silver medal.
Commonwealth Games here on Wednesday. Pandey managed just two lifts, which is the bare minimum required to register a total, for an aggregate of 228kg (103kg+ 125kg) at the NEC here.
Wrestlers Sanket Sargar and Gururaj Poojary showed nerves of steels as they handed India their first two medals on Day of the ongoing Commonwealth Games in Birmingham. While Sargar won a silver in the men's 55kg category, Gururaj won bronze in men's 61kg category. Sargar finished second with a total lift of 248 kgs, while Gururaj also lifted a total of 269 kgs in his weight category. After both weightlifters took India's medal tally to two, people from all walks of life congratulated Sargar and Gururaj on winning silver and bronze medals, respectively.
Commonwealth Games here on Wednesday. The 24-year-old from Punjab lifted a total of 355 kg, including a new national record of 192 kg in clean and jerk, to finish third on the podium.