Published By: Ritayan Basu
Last Updated: May 08, 2023, 14:42 IST
Ajith Narayana on the Asian Weightlifting Championships (Twitter)
The Indian contingent returned with three silver medals from the Asian Weightlifting Championships
Indian weightlifters Ajith Narayana and Achinta Sheuli completed first and second respectively in Group B of the boys’s 73kg occasion on the Asian Championships on Monday.
Competing in his first senior worldwide event, Ajith lifted a complete of 307kg (139kg+168kg), whereas Achinta might solely handle 305kg (140kg+165kg).
Both lifters have been assigned Group B based mostly on their entry weights. The lifters who register the very best entry weight are positioned in group A, adopted by B and so forth.
Ajith, the reigning nationwide champion, lifted 135kg and 139kg in his opening two snatch makes an attempt however couldn’t hoist the barbell in his last strive of 141kg.
Similarly in clear and jerk, he lifted 164kg and 168kg with ease earlier than faltering in his last strive of 171kg.
Meanwhile, Achinta, who’s coming off a hamstring damage that pressured him to withdraw from final 12 months’s World Championships, put up an underwhelming show as he might mange solely three authorized lifts.
The 2021 Junior World Championship silver medallist had a greatest effort of 140kg in snatch, and that too, in his second strive. His private greatest within the part is 143kg.
He had failed makes an attempt of 169kg and 171kg within the clear and jerk part.
The Kolkata lifter had lifted 170kg throughout his gold-winning feat on the CWG final 12 months.
The Indian contingent thus returns with three silver medals from the occasion — received by Commonwealth Games silver medallist Bindyarani Devi and reigning Youth Olympics champion Jeremy Lalrinninga.
Bindayarani received two silvers medals — one within the clear and jerk part and the opposite for her total effort within the girls’s 55kg occasion on Saturday — whereas CWG champion Jeremy, then again, clinched the silver within the males’s 67kg snatch occasion.
Medals are awarded individually for snatch, clear and jerk, and whole elevate in continental and World Championships. But, only one medal for whole elevate is awarded within the Olympics.
Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu completed sixth within the girls’s 49kg occasion as a dodgy hip pressured her to withdraw after one clear and jerk try.
The 2023 Asian Championships is the second qualifying occasion for the 2024 Paris Olympics, the place weightlifting occasions shall be lower from 14 to 10.
However, it’s a further occasion and never a obligatory one and therefore the lifters have been cautious to not stretch themselves.
Under the 2024 Olympic qualification rule, a lifter has to compulsorily compete within the 2023 World Championships and the 2024 World Cup.
Apart from the above, the lifter additionally has to take part in three of the next occasions the 2022 World Championships, the 2023 Continental Championships, the 2023 Grand Prix 1, the 2023 Grand Prix II and the 2024 Continental Championships.
The International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) will publish the Olympic Qualification Ranking (OQR) of every weight class on the finish of the qualification interval.
A weightlifter’s greatest three performances on the qualifying occasions shall be taken into consideration for last evaluation.
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