: CWG 2022: Mirabai in imperious form as lifters start Indias medal hunt with a three-peat (Weightlifting Ld) #IndiaNEWS #Sports Birmingham, July 31 (IANS) Weightlifters led by the amazing Saikhom Mirabai

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CWG 2022: Mirabai in imperious form as lifters start Indias medal hunt with a three-peat (Weightlifting Ld) #IndiaNEWS #Sports
Birmingham, July 31 (IANS) Weightlifters led by the amazing Saikhom Mirabai Chanu opened Indias medal account at the 2022 Commonwealth Games here with a gold, silver, and bronze haul, winning medals in all three events held at the weightlifting arena so far to lift the country to the seventh place in the medals tally with hopes of at least one more medal for the day with Indians figuring in two more finals on Saturday.
Maharashtras Sanket Sargar set the ball rolling for India by winning the countrys first medal of Birmingham 2022 a silver medal in Mens 55kg weightlifting and Karnatakas Gururaja Poojary claimed bronze in Mens 61kg in the morning session.
Golden girl Mirabai Chanu, the Tokyo Olympic Games silver medallist, then stepped up to the rostrum to win the countrys first gold medal of this edition as she came up with a brilliant performance to top the field by a distance in the Womens 49kg division with a Games Record to boot as India made a strong start in Birmingham. A former World Champion in 49kg, Mirabai easily retained the gold medal she won in Gold Coast in 2018.
Mirabai totally dominated the field and finished streets ahead of the entire competition as she expectedly clinched the gold medal. The 27-year-old from Manipur usually lifts 20-30 kgs more than the field, managing a total of 201kg.
By far the best weightlifter in this class, Mirabai lifted 88 kg in snatch and then added 113 kg in the clean and jerk to leave the opposition way behind. While Mirabai lifted 201 kg for the gold medal, Marie Hanitra Roilya Ranaivosoa of Mauritius took silver with a total of 172 kg, and Canadas Hannah Kaminiski took bronze with a total of 171 kg.
Four years ago, Mirabai had won the gold medal in Gold Coast while Ranaivosoa, who is a personal trainer in her day job, had finished second. The order remained the same in Birmingham too.
There could easily have been two gold medals for India on Saturday but Sanket Sargar was thwarted by an injury during the clean and jerk section of the Mens 55kg competition and lost out on the yellow metal by just one kg.
As he lifted 139 kg in his second attempt in the clean and jerk section of the mens 55kg, Sargar clearly heard something snap in his arm. He could not complete the lift as pain shot through his arm to the entire body.
The diminutive lifter trudged back into the warmup area and had a chat with his coach before emerging for his third and final attempt at 139 kg. But the pain was too much and there was not enough time nor any attempt, to avoid being declared medically unfit to compete by the doctor, and Sanket bravely attempted to lift 139 and failed again.
The 22-year-old Sargar from the Sangli district of Maharashtra lifted an aggregate of 248 kg but was pipped to the post by Malaysias Mohamad Aniq bin Kasdan, who came from behind to lift 142 kg in clean and jerk in his third and final attempt, taking his total to 249.

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