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National Games: Pranati Naik shines in gymnastics; Jhilli, Sneha win bronz
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
In an impressive achievement for the state of Odisha, Pranati Naik secured the gold in Women's Artistic Gymnastics. Meanwhile, Jhilli Dalabehera and Sneha Soren, clinched bronze medals in the weightlifting discipline at the 37th edition of the National Games held in Goa.
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"Want to win gold for India": Weightlifting National record breaker Dipali
Updated : 2 years, 7 months ago IST
Maharashtrian weightlifter Dipali Ghursale secured the gold medal, setting the National record for the Women's 45kg snatch and total weight division in the process. Ghursale set the record by lifting 75kg in the snatch, and 90kg in the clean and jerk round respectively, thereby setting a tot
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Asian Games: Weightlifter Bindyarani Devi finishes fifth in women's 55 kg
Updated : 2 years, 8 months ago IST
Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi Sorokhaibam finished fifth in the women's 55 kg category on Saturday at the Hangzhou Asian Games.
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Anurag Thakur inaugurates Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championshi
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
The international event will see the participation of more than 30 Indian weightlifters, including many Khelo India Athletes who in the past month alone gave India its best-ever performance at the Weightlifting Commonwealth Championships by winning 61 medals in total.
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Commonwealth Games gold medalist Mirabai Chanu appeals for peace in her ho
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Indian weightlifter and Commonwealth Games gold medalist Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has expressed her views on the Manipur violence while requesting the Prime Minister and the Home Minister to solve the issue.
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Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2023: Indian contingent starts st
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Over 250 weightlifters from 20 countries are competing at the event across junior, youth and senior categories. The championships will conclude on July 16
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Hope new young talents will come from here: Former weightlifter Karnam Mal
Updated : 2 years, 10 months ago IST
Over 250 weightlifters from 20 countries will vie for medals at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship 2023.
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All Odisha Inter-Club Weightlifting Championship: Sports Hostel Bhubaneswa
Updated : 2 years, 11 months ago IST
The state-level tournament saw over 200 talented weightlifters from 10 districts and 20 weightlifting clubs across Odisha showcase their skills and compete for supremacy.
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Delhi HC directs CRPF to medically examine afresh woman weightlifter rejec
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The Delhi High Court has recently directed Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) to medically examine afresh a woman weightlifter. She had applied for a job of head constable under sports quota but was rejected for having a tattoo on her right forearm. The woman weightlifter had challenged her
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Mirabai Chanu returns to lead Indian contingent for Asian Weightlifting Ch
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
The Indian weightlifters' second qualifying competition for the Olympic Games in Paris in 2024 will be the continental championship. In her most recent competition, Mirabai Chanu placed second in the women's 49kg category at the World Weightlifting Championships 2022 in Colombia in December.
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International players in Raipur sharpening weightlifting skills of childre
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
With dreams in their eyes for preparing players for the Olympics and international events, international weightlifter Rustam Sarang and his younger brother Ajaydeep Sarang, who is also an international player, are sweating several hours in a gym to enhance the skills and teach the basics of
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Weightlifter Sanjita Chanu gets four-year ban by NADA for failing dope tes
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Chanu was tested during the National Games 2022 held in Gujarat in September-October and her tests came back positive for drostanolone, an anabolic-androgenic steroid prohibited by the World Anti-doping Agency (WADA)
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