Revision as of 06:49, 13 May 2022

RECORDS

Women

+87 kg

Snatch

104 kg Purnima Pandey 2022

102 KG Purnima Pandey 16.12.21

101kg Ann Mariya MT 2022

C&J clean and jerk

129 kg Ann Maryia MT 2022

128kg Manpreet Kaur 2022

127 KG Purnima Pandey 16.12.21

Total

231 kg Ann Maryia MT 2022

229 KG Purnima Pandey 16.12.21

87 kg

Snatch

102 KG Srishti Singh RSPB 26.2.19

C&J clean and jerk

126 KG P. Anuradha Tamil Nadu 26.2.19

Total

228 KG P. Anuradha Tamil Nadu 26.2.19

81 kg

Snatch

99 KG Punam Yadav RSPB 25.2.19

C&J clean and jerk

121 KG Swapna Priya Baruah Assam 25.2.19

Total

220 KG Punam Yadav RSPB 25.2.19

76 kg

Snatch

98 KG Punam Yadav RSPB 15.12.21

C&J clean and jerk

123 KG R. Arockiya Alish Tamil Nadu 15.12.21

Total

220 KG Punam Yadav RSPB 15.12.21

71 kg

Snatch

95 KG Lalchhanhimi Mizoram 5.2.20

C&J clean and jerk

122 KG Lalchhanhimi Mizoram 5.2.20

Total

217 KG Lalchhanhimi Mizoram 5.2.20

64 kg

Snatch

95 KG Rakhi Halder RSPB 21.12.19

C&J clean and jerk

124 KG Rakhi Halder RSPB 22.9.19

Total

218 KG Rakhi Halder RSPB 21.12.19

59 kg

Snatch

94 KG Popy Hazarika Assam 4.2.20

C&J clean and jerk

115 KG E. Deexitha Telangana 23.2.19

Total

203 KG E. Deexitha RSPB 4.2.20

55 kg

Snatch

84 KG M. Santoshi RSPB 23.2.19

C&J clean and jerk

114 KG S. Bindyarani Devi Manipur 9.12.21

Total

198 KG S. Bindyarani Devi Manipur 9.12.21

49 kg

Snatch

88 KG S. Mirabai Chanu RSPB 4.2.20

C&J clean and jerk

119 KG S. Mirabai Chanu RSPB 18.4.21

Total

205 KG S. Mirabai Chanu RSPB 18.4.21

45 kg

Snatch

71 KG Jhilli Dalabehera RSPB 21.4.19

C&J clean and jerk

94 KG Jhilli Dalabehera RSPB 9.7.19

Total

164 KG Jhilli Dalabehera RSPB 9.7.19

Men

+109 kg

Snatch

172 KG Gurdeep Singh RSPB 17.12.21

C&J clean and jerk

220 KG Gurdeep Singh RSPB 28.2.19

Total

390 KG Gurdeep Singh RSPB 28.2.19

109 kg

Snatch

161 KG Lovepreet Singh Punjab 16.12.21

C&J clean and jerk

187 KG Lovepreet Singh Punjab 16.12.21

Total

348 KG Lovepreet Singh Punjab 16.12.21

102 kg

Snatch

150 KG Pardeep Singh RSPB 26.4.19

C&J clean and jerk

202 KG Pardeep Singh RSPB 13.7.19

Total

351 KG Pardeep Singh RSPB 26.4.19

96 kg

Snatch

157 KG Vikas Thakur SSCB 9.2.19

C&J clean and jerk

197 KG Vikas Thakur SSCB 25.4.19

Total

353 KG Vikas Thakur SSCB 9.2.19

89 kg

Snatch

150 KG Harshad Wadekar RSPB 26.2.19

C&J clean and jerk

188 KG Sambo Lapung SSCB 6.2.20

Total

337 KG Harshad Wadekar RSPB 26.2.19

81 kg

Snatch

148 KG Ajay Singh SSCB 4.11.18

C&J clean and jerk

190 KG Ajay Singh SSCB 12.7.19

Total

338 KG Ajay Singh SSCB 12.7.19

73 kg

Snatch

145 KG Deepak Lather SSCB 11.8.21

C&J clean and jerk

173 KG Achinta Sheuli West Bengal 10.12.21

Total

316 KG Achinta Sheuli West Bengal 10.12.21

67 kg

Snatch

141 KG Jeremy Lalrinnunga Mizoram 10.12.21

C&J clean and jerk

167 KG Jeremy Lalrinnunga Mizoram 3.2.20

Total

306 KG Jeremy Lalrinnunga Mizoram 20.12.19

61 kg

Snatch

120 KG Muthupandi Raja RSPB 10.7.19

C&J clean and jerk

157 KG Shubham Kolekar Maharashtra 3.2.20

Total

272 KG Shubham Kolekar Maharashtra 3.2.20

55 kg

Snatch

113 KG Sanket Sargar Maharashtra 7.12.21

C&J clean and jerk

139 KG Shubham Kolekar Maharashtra 9.1.19

Total

244 KG Sanket Sargar Maharashtra 26.2.20

YEAR-WISE DEVELOPMENTS

2017

The best players

February 13, 2018: The Times of India

Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu, achievements at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships, 2017
From: February 13, 2018: The Times of India

Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu

Please see picture: K Sanjita Chanu, achievements at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships, 2017

SAIKHOM MIRABAI CHANU

Became only the second Indian weightlifter after Karnam Malleswari to win gold at the World Weightlifting Championships. In the women’s 48kg event, she lifted a new world record of 194kg - 85kg snatch and 109kg cleanand-jerk. Broke her own existing record in the snatch event at the Commonwealth Senior weightlifting championships with a lift of 85kg. With this gold medal, Chanu qualified for the 2018 Commonwealth Games to be held in Australia.

SATHISH KUMAR SHIVALINGAM

Won gold in the men’s 77kg event at the Commonwealth Senior weightlifting championships held in Australia, with a total effort of 320kg (148kg in snatch, 172kg in clean & jerk). With this, he sealed passage to the 2018 Commonwealth Games.

RAGALA VENKAT RAHUL

Won two gold medals in the men’s 85kg categories at the Commonwealth Senior weightlifting championships held in Australia, with a standout total lift of 351kg (156kg in snatch, 195kg in clean & jerk). The youngster from Guntur created two records and won two gold medals in the 85kg category.

JEREMY LALRINNUNGA

Clinched silver in the boy’s 56kg category at the IWF Youth World Weightlifting Championships in Bangkok. The 14-year-old lifted a total of 240kg (110 in snatch and 130 in clean & jerk) to finish second in the event. Won gold (53kg) at the Commonwealth Senior weightlifting championships held in Australia.

2018

Commonwealth Games

Weightlifting, Deepak Lather (Bronze in the men's 69 kg event)

April 6, 2018: The Times of India

Teenager Deepak Lather has extended India’s weightlifting medal tally at the 2018 Commonwealth Games to four by winning bronze in the men’s 69kg event. In his first appearance at the quadrennial games, the 18-year-old from the village of Shadipur in Haryana - who was once enrolled at Pune’s Army Sports Institute as a diver - finished with a combined effort of 295kg (136 in snatch and 159 in clean & jerk) at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre on April 6, 2018.

Lather, who two years ago broke the Commonwealth Youth Games record in Samoa, moved into medal contention with lifts of 132kg and 136kg in the snatch event, but slipped to level second after failing to lift 138kg in his third attempt. In the clean & jerk, a section in which there were six lifters with higher weights, the youngster produced a personal best of 159kg, bettering his previous best of 157, but failed to lift 162 in his third attempt.

Marginally in line for a bronze, the prize for India was confirmed when Samoa’s Vaipova Ioane failed to seal bronze. It is an outstanding result from the teenager, who entered his maiden Commonwealth Games with plenty of expectation but who was competing with some far more experienced weightlifters.

Winning gold in the 69kg event was Gareth Evans of Wales with a total lift of 299kg (136 in snatch, 163 in clean & jerk) followed by Sri Lanka’s Indika Dissanayake with 297 (137 in snatch, 160 in clean & jerk).

Born into a family of farmers, Deepak took to weightlifting at the age of nine when his father Bijender noticed his strength while ploughing the field and lifting burlap sacks of fodder onto his back. In 2008, he impressed during a series of trials conducted across Haryana by the Sports Authority of India (SAI) and was chosen to travel to Pune where, interestingly, he was trained as a diver. As it turned out, Deepak was disinterested in diving and found his calling when he was re-assigned to be a weightlifter.

The hard work began to pay off after a slow start when in 2015 he won the youth (Under-17) 62kg category at the Commonwealth Championships, a silver medal at the Asian Youth Championships and became the youngest Indian weightlifter to enter the World Championships. In 2016, at the age of 15, Deepak became the youngest Indian to win the national championship when he smashed the country’s long-standing 62kg snatch record and finished with a total of 267kg.

At the Commonwealth Games Championships in 2017, Deepak won gold in the 69kg category and bronze in the senior men’s section to heighten expectations at the CWG. As it continues to be proven, diving’s loss has become weightlifting’s gain.

2019

Asian Championship

Youth record for Jeremy; Mirabai misses bronze

April 22, 2019: The Times of India

Former world champion Mirabai Chanu produced her personal best but missed out on a podium finish by a whisker, while Youth Olympics gold medallist Jeremy Lalrinnunga went on a recordsmashing spree at the Asian Weightlifting Championship.

The 24-year-old Mirabai lifted 86kg in snatch and a personal best of 113kg in clean and jerk for a total of 199kg in the women’s 49kg event to finish on fourth position.

Her earlier personal best total in 49kg was 192kg in the EGAT Cup in Thailand in February.

In a remarkable performance, 16-year-old Jeremy secured second place in Group B of the 67kg men’s event. During his record-smashing spree, he claimed three world marks.

Earlier in the day, Jhili Dalabehera opened India’s medal account, claiming a silver medal in the women’s 45kg category. However, 45kg is not a Olympic weight category.

The points gathered from this event will come in handy when the final rankings for 2020 Tokyo Olympics are made next year.

Unfortunately Mirabai missed the bronze as China’s Zhang Rong with the same total of 199kg (88kg+111kg) finished third under new rules, which came into effect in 2017. Under these rules, the competitor who has a lower clean and jerk result (that means higher snatch result) will be ranked higher in the classification of athletes for total lift. The gold medal went to Hou Zhihui of China who produced an effort of 208kg (92kg+116kg) while North Korea’s Ri Song-gum clinched the silver, lifting 200kg (86kg+114kg) in the gold level Olympic qualifier.

After clearing 86kg in her snatch, Mirabai began her clean and jerk with a 109kg and then lifted 113kg successfully. But in her third attempt, the Manipuri could not lift 115kg and that cost her dear. Had she been successful in her attempt to lift 115kg, she would have won a silver with a total of 201kg. PTI

Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship

Day 1/ 13 medals, including eight gold

Mirabai bags gold at C’wealth meet

Apia (Samoa): Former world champion Mirabai Chanu led the Indian medal rush by notching up a gold on the opening day of the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship in Apia, Samoa. The Indian contingent won 13 medals that included eight gold, three silver and two bronze medals in senior, junior and youth categories. Mirabai lifted a total of 191kg (84kg + 107 kg) in the senior women’s 49 kg event to win the gold in the Olympic qualifying event. Jhilli Dalabehra also clinched first place with a lift of 154kg (70kg+94kg) in senior women's 45 kg event. In 55kg, Soroikhaibam Bindyarani Devi and Matsa Santoshi won the gold and silver medals respectively. Bindyarani lifted 78 kg in snatch to bag silver. In senior men's 55kg, Rishikanta Singh grabbed gold with a total of 235kg .

Day 2: 7 gold medals

July 11, 2019: The Times of India

Rakhi Halder and Davinder Kaur won a gold medal each in the senior women’s section as Indian weightlifters continued their impressive show on the second day of the Commonwealth Championships here on Wednesday. India had also won five other gold medals in the junior and youth sections.

Kaur lifted a total of 184kg (80+104) to win the women’s 59kg gold while Halder clinched the yellow metal with a combined effort of 214kg (94+120) in the 64kg category. India had clinched 8 gold, 3 silver and 2 bronze medals on Day 2. Former world champion Mirabai Chanu had won the gold in women’s 49kg with a total lift of 191kg. PTI

IWF strips SAG competition of Olympic status; India affected

Sabi Hussain, Nov 26, 2019: The Times of India

Indian weightlifting’s two best Tokyo Olympic hopes, Mirabai Chanu and Jeremy Lalrinnunga, have suffered a setback in their quest to qualify for the Summer Games next year – for no fault of theirs.

The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) has stripped the weightlifting competition at the upcoming South Asian Games (SAG) in Nepal of its Olympic qualification status for not adhering to its ‘whereabouts’ rule concerning dope testing of athletes.

As a result, the SAG will no longer serve as a qualification gateway to Tokyo for weightlifters of participating nations – India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Maldives and hosts Nepal. For the record, weightlifting at the SAG, scheduled to be held from December 1 to 10, was the only discipline which had been labelled a ‘silver level’ Olympic qualification event by the IWF.

The Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) had entered Mirabai and Jeremy’s entries keeping in mind the fact that the Games will provide a perfect chance to the two weightlifters to strengthen their world rankings, given the relatively low level of competition on offer. Mirabai and Jeremy will now compete in the International Cup in Doha, Qatar from December 19 to 24, which will act as a qualification event. The IWLF will send a junior team to Nepal.

Sources informed TOI that some participating nations did not submit the whereabouts of their weightlifters to IWF in advance, and the world governing body stripped the Games of its qualification status. IWF rule states that the federations sending athletes to a qualifying meet will have to send details at least two months in advance.

Qatar Cup: Mirabai wins gold, Jeremy silver

Dec 21, 2019 Times of India

Former world champion weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu notched up the women’s 49kg category gold medal to open India’s account at the 6th Qatar International Cup.

The 25-year-old Chanu won gold with an effort of 194kg in the Olympic qualifying silver level event, the points from which will come in handy when the final rankings for 2020 Tokyo Olympics cut are done.

To qualify for Tokyo, a weightlifter must compete in at least one event in each of the three periods of six months (spread over November 2018 to April 2020), at least six events overall and in at least one gold and another silver level event.

In the men’s 67kg category, India’s Jeremy Lalrinnunga won the silver medal with a total lift of 306kg (140kg in snatch and 166kg in clean and jerk). Chanu’s performance on Friday was, however, way below her personal best of 201kg which she lifted during this year’s World Championships in Thailand.

The 2018 Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Indian managed to register only one clean lift in both the snatch and clean and jerk categories.

She manged to lift 83kg in her second attempt in snatch event but then failed to clear 87kg in her final try.

In the clean and jerk section, Chanu lifted 111kg in her first attempt but was unable to heave 115kg and116kg in her finaltwo attempts.

The French duo of Anais Michel (172kg) and Manon Lorentz (165kg) took home the silver and bronze medals respectively. PTI

World Championship

Mirabai Lifts 201 Kg, Four Times Her Body Weight

Sabi Hussain, Sep 20, 2019: The Times of India

Mirabai Saikhom Chanu failed to clinch a medal at the World Championships in Pattaya, Thailand on Thursday, but achieved what no other Indian woman weightlifter has been able to accomplish so far – lift a total that was more than four times her body weight.

Mirabai came agonisingly close to a podium finish before settling for a fourth-place finish in the 49kg category. In the process, she became the first woman weightlifter from the country to breach the magic mark of 200kg – she lifted a total of 201 (87 in snatch and 114 in clean and jerk) in her weight category. She surpassed her personal best of 199kg, which she had achieved at the Asian championships in Ningbo, China this April.

China’s Jiang Huihua (total 212 – 94 snatch and 118 clean and jerk) won the gold medal, while silver went to another Chinese lifter, Hou Zhihui (total 211 – 94 snatch and 117 clean and jerk) and North Korea’s Song Gum (total 204 – 89 snatch and 115 clean and jerk) settled for bronze. Mirabai’s fourth finish in the 33-strong field did a world of good to her Tokyo Olympics qualification chances. The Pattaya Worlds is a qualifying meet and performances in the event will hold much significance when global rankings in each weight category will be released by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) at the end of the qualification cycle in April 2020.

Mirabai is at present ranked third in the world in her 49kg category and she is almost certain to travel to Tokyo being the country’s No.1 in her weight division. A country (read Indian weightlifting body) can nominate only one weightlifter in each qualified weight category for the Olympics and there is little doubt that entry would be of Mirabai. In Olympics, each weight category will have a total of 14 lifters (13 those who will qualify based on world rankings and one from the host nation i.e. Japan).

Mirabai’s coaches have planned two more competitions in coming months, which will fall in the Olympic qualification cycle, to enable her to continue in the same position. “Lifting a total in excess of 200kg is generally considered a safe mark for a lifter since not many, apart from Chinese and Koreans, have bene able to breach that figure in this weight category,” India’s chief national weightlifting coach Vijay Sharma told TOI from Pattaya.

“It’s been just a few months since Mirabai has started competing again. She had suffered a careerthreatening back injury in 2018, which kept her out of the arena for nine months. We don’t want to rush her into heavy training. She recently lifted a total of 203kg during a training session in Patiala and we wanted her to lift more than 200kg at the Worlds. Our focus is to get her lift a total of 210kg closer to the Tokyo Olympics,” said Sharma.

2021

Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships

Jeremy Lalrinnunga wins gold

Dec 10, 2021: The Times of India

TASHKENT: India's teenage weightlifting sensation Jeremy Lalrinnunga could not breach his personal best mark but the effort of 305kg was enough to win the gold medal in the men's 67kg category even as Achinta Sheuli became the 73kg champion at the Commonwealth Championships.

Lalrinnunga, the 2018 Youth Olympics gold medallist, finished with a best effort of 305kg (141kg+164kg) in the men's 67kg event. His personal best stands at 306kg (140kg+166kg) which came in 2019.

Meanwhile, Sheuli claimed the top place on the podium with an effort of 316kg (143 + 173) in the 73kg category. He had won a silver in Junior World Championships in May.

The 19-year-old Lalrinnunga also created a national record in the snatch event enroute his podium finish but was unable to do the same in the clean and jerk section where he failed to lift 168kg.

In the World Championships which are being held simultaneously with the Commonwealth Championship, the Mizo teenager was placed fourth in snatch and seventh overall.

Jeremy had suffered a knee injury in April during the Asian Championships. He had finished fourth at the Junior World Championship in May but was unable to make the cut for the Tokyo Olympics.

The Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships also serve as qualifying event of the 2022 Commonwealth Gamez in Birmingham.

The gold medalists in each weight category in the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships directly qualify for the 2022 CWG and the rest will qualify through Commonwealth rankings.

Junior World Championships

Sheuli breaks 6 records, wins silver

Achinta Sheuli broke six national weightlifting records, including three in the senior group, on his way to silver-medal winning performance in the men's 73kg category of the Junior World Championships in Tashkent