Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2023: India finish with 20 medals - full list of winners
Indian senior lifters bagged nine gold, nine silver and two bronze at the New Delhi meet. Know all medal winners.
Weightlifting
The Indian senior weightlifting contingent ended the campaign at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2023 with a rich haul of 20 medals on Sunday.
India’s medals tally comprised nine golds, nine silvers and two bronze. The weightlifting competition was held at Gautam Buddha University in Greater Noida.
On the final day of the event, Commonwealth Games 2022 bronze medallist Lovepreet Singh (men’s 109kg) won a silver medal while Purnima Pandey claimed the bronze medal in the women’s +87kg category.
In the morning session, Lovepreet Singh lifted a combined weight of 341kg (154kg snatch + 187kg clean and jerk) to finish second in the 109kg senior category. Fiji’s Taniela Rainibogi clinched the gold medal with a total lift of 363kg (163kg snatch + 200kg clean and jerk). The bronze medal went to Britain’s Andrew Griffiths, who lifted a total weight of 340kg (155kg snatch + 185 clean and jerk).
Later in the day, Purnima Pandey won the bronze medal in the women’s +87kg category with a total lift of 227kg (102kg snatch + 125kg clean and jerk). The gold medal went to Samoa’s Iuniarra Sipaia, who hauled a total weight of 262kg (110kg snatch + 152kg clean and jerk). Another Samoan weightlifter, Lesila Fiapule, bagged the silver medal with a total lift of 250kg (110kg snatch + 140 clean and jerk).
The two medals on the final day also helped India better their tally from the last edition. Indian lifters won 16 medals, four gold, seven silver and five bronze, at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2021 held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Apart from the senior category, the Indian weightlifters also competed in the junior and youth events.
India’s Asian Games 2023-bound weightlifters Mirabai Chanu, Achinta Sheuli and Bindyarani Devi didn’t compete in the event.
Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships 2023: India’s medal winners - senior category
- N Ajith - gold medal in men’s 73kg
- Ajay Singh - gold medal in men’s 81kg
- Shubham Todkar - gold medal in men’s 61kg
- Popy Hazarika - gold medal in women’s 59kg
- Komal Kohar - gold medal in women’s 45kg
- Gyaneshwari Yadav - gold medal in women’s 49kg
- Mukund Aher- gold medal in men’s 55kg
- S Nirupama Devi - gold medal in women's 64kg
- Vanshita Verma - gold medal in women’s 81kg
- Jhilli Dalabehera - silver medal in women’s 49kg
- Shrabani Das - silver medal in women’s 55kg
- T Madhavan - silver medal in men’s 67kg
- Harjinder Kaur - silver medal in women’s 71kg
- Pallavi S - silver medal in women's 64kg
- Amarjit Guru - silver medal in men’s 89kg
- Harshad Wadekar - silver medal in men’s 96kg
- Harcharan Singh - silver medal in men’s 102kg
- Lovepreet Singh - silver medal in men’s 109kg
- Jagdish Vishwakarma - bronze medal in men’s 96kg
- Purnima Pandey - bronze medal in women’s +87kg