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Not happy with gold, Sheuli says attaining personal best was his goalBIRMINGHAM: It has been a windfall of medals for Indian weightlifters here. After Mirabai Chanu showed the way with a gold on Saturday, Jeremy Lalrinnunga and Achinta Sheuli followed with two more top positions. Achinta lifted 313kg (143kg in snatch + 170kg in clean and jerk) late on Sunday to smash the CWG record in the 73kg category.
England’s Sarah Davies emerged from a “tough” period in her weightlifting career to end her silver streak and win Commonwealth Games gold in Birmingham.
Indian weightlifter Harjinder Kaur won a bronze medal with a combined lift of 212kg in the Women's 71kg final at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Monday. Nigerian lifter Joy Ogbonne Eze was unsuccessful in all of her three attempts in the clean and jerk round, meaning Harjinder Kaur became India's ninth medallist at the Commonwealth Games 2022. England's Sarah Davies won a gold medal.
Commonwealth Games on Monday. Harjinder was assured of a podium finish after much drama as Nigeria's gold medal favourite Joy Eze was knocked out following three failed attempts in the clean and jerk category.
Dame Laura Kenny delivered while two England gymnasts are vying for a piece of history after the fourth day of the action at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
Deulpur, till Sunday midnight, was another nondescript village with a population of 12,000 people under Panchla sub-division of Howrah district in West Bengal. That is how Wikipedia describes the village in about three sentences. On Monday morning, the page had a sub-section added, 'Notable Personality' and that is Achinta Sheuli. Achinta had not only lifted 313 kilograms of weight but also lifted his village out of obscurity and invoked interest in people to know more about the 20-year-old, who came from a village, which is famous for Zari work.
Canada got off to a strong start on the fourth day of competition at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, England — reaching the 20-medal mark courtesy of artistic gymnast Félix Dolci and weightlifter Nicolas Vachon.
Commonwealth Games have no interest in going global. Recognition in their own country will be enough. Soon after a come-from-behind win over New Zealand in the women's fours semifinals, the quartet of Lovely Choubey, Rupa Rani Tirkey, Pinki and Nayanmoni Saikia could not believe what they had accomplished. The 'leader' of the pack, 38-year-old Lovely is a constable with Jharkhand Police while Rupa, who too is from Ranchi, works in the sports department.