Mirabai Chanu to lead Indian contingent at World Weightlifting Championships 2023 in Riyadh

Category : Sports Published on: July 19 2023

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The Tokyo 2020 Olympics silver medalist Mirabai Chanu will lead a five-member Indian contingent at the World Weightlifting Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The Riyadh event will be a qualifying event for the 2024 Paris Olympics and will be held from September 4 to 17.
Chanu will be competing in the women’s 49 kg category. The two-time world championships medalist will be aiming for a gold. She won gold in 2017 meet at Anaheim while had to settle for silver last year in Bogota.
BindyarDevi, the 2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships gold medal winner, will be taking part in women’s 55 kg event.
The men’s team consists of 2022 Commonwealth Games champion Achinta Sheuli, who will be taking part in 73 kg category.
The current national-level champion Narayana Ajith, Shubham Todkar, (who secured the gold medal in the 61kg category at the ongoing Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships) will also be competing.