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Gururaja bagged bronze whereas late in the day, Bindyarani Devi capped off an outstanding day with a silver medal as nicely and made it 4 medals for India.
Here’s a quick recap of the Day 2
Sargar set the ball rolling for India by profitable the nation’s first medal of Birmingham 2022 — a silver medal in Men’s 55kg weightlifting and Karnataka’s Gururaja Poojary claimed bronze in Men’s 61kg in the morning session.
Golden woman Mirabai Chanu, the Tokyo Olympic Games silver medallist, then stepped up to the podium to win the nation’s first gold medal of this version as she got here up with an excellent efficiency to prime the sector by a distance in the Women’s 49kg division with a Games Record to boot as India made a powerful begin in Birmingham. A former World Champion in 49kg, Mirabai simply retained the gold medal she gained in Gold Coast in 2018.
There may simply have been two gold medals for India on Saturday however Sanket Sargar was thwarted by an damage in the course of the clear and jerk part of the Men’s 55kg competitors and misplaced out on the yellow metallic by only one kg.
As he lifted 139 kg in his second try in the clear and jerk part of the boys’s 55kg, Sargar clearly heard one thing snap in his arm. He couldn’t full the carry as ache shot by way of his arm to your entire physique.
The 22-year-old Sargar from the Sangli district of Maharashtra lifted an mixture of 248 kg however was pipped to the put up by Malaysia’s Mohamad Aniq bin Kasdan,
Gururaja claimed India’s second medal of the day when he got here up along with his greatest makes an attempt in a brand new weight class to bag a bronze medal. The 27-year-old Junior Warrant Officer (JWO) in India Air Force acquired married in May 2021 however determined to go away his spouse along with his mother and father in Karnataka in order that he can consider his profession.
Bindyarani, 23, 86kg in the snatch occasion to end third in the spherical. And then she scripted CWG document with a 116kg carry in clear and jerk spherical – her private greatest as nicely. With a complete carry of 202kg, she clinched silver medal.
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