Teenaged Indian weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnunga will look to safe an Olympic Games berth within the 67kg class when the 2021 junior World Championships, the final qualification occasion, is held in Tashkent from May 21 to 31.
Weightlifting qualification for the Tokyo Olympics relies on world rankings, and Lalrinnunga is positioned twenty sixth in his weight class. To qualify for the Olympics, he must do higher than South Korea’s Myeongmok Han, who’s positioned twentieth.
Even although medical doctors have suggested the 18-year-old to not stress his injured knee an excessive amount of, the younger weightlifter is pushing onerous to higher his private better of 306kgs (140kg in snatch and 166kg in clear and jerk).
The Mizoram lifter, who turned India’s first Youth Olympics gold medallist in 2018, must elevate not less than 310kgs on the Tashkent match to have any probability of usurping the South Korean lifter within the ‘Gold Level’ rating occasion.
Another main hurdle for the lifter is a knee harm he suffered through the Asian Championships in Tashkent final month. Due to the harm, Lalrinnunga’s efficiency suffered and he completed eighth.
Lalrinnunga has undergone an MRI scan and medical doctors have suggested him to not put stress on his knees. But Lalrinnunga, who’s coaching on the National Institute of Sport (NIS), Patiala, is hopeful of full restoration.
“I’m focusing extra on strengthening proper now. I’ve began doing mild coaching with the world occasion across the nook. I nonetheless have greater than a fortnight to get better. I hope to compete within the Uzbekistan occasion and earn requisite rating factors,” the Olympic channel quoted Lalrinnunga as saying.
India’s woman weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who won bronze at the Asian Championships last month, has all but secured her Olympic spot in the 49kg category.
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