Commonwealth Games 2022: Achinta Sheuli wins Gold, India’s sixth weightlifting medal in Birmingham

Achinta Sheuli on Sunday secured India’s sixth medal in weightlifting with a gold within the males’s 73 kg class.

Earlier within the day, Indian star Jeremy Lalrinnunga received the gold medal within the males’s 67 kg class, including to India’s tally from thirtieth July.

On Saturday, India secured 4 medals as Mirabai Chanu (girls’s 49 kg class) secured gold whereas Bindyarani Devi (girls’s 55 kg class) and Sanket Sargar (males’s 55 kg class) secured silver. Gururaja Poojary additionally claimed the bronze within the males’s 61 kg class.

On Sunday, Sheuli began off his snatch spherical within the 73 kg class with an unimaginable raise of 137 kgs. He continued his wonderful effort and lifted 140 kgs on his second try and made it three in three with a herculean effort to raise 143 kgs.

The 20-year-old’s closing try within the snatch spherical was a Commonwealth Games report.

With his first raise within the clear and jerk spherical, Sheuli set a video games report with a mixed raise of 309 kgs and gained the lead within the contest.

While Sheuli missed out on his second try, he was capable of raise 170 kgs within the closing try and broke his personal Games report but once more as he pushed it to a mixed raise of 313 kgs.

While Malaysia’s Erry Hidayat Muhammaed did push the 20-year-old all the way in which, Sheuli’s effort was sufficient to win the gold medal on Sunday.

Who is Achinta Sheuli?

The 20-year-old Achinta Sheuli took to weightlifting in 2010. By 2012, Sheuli had began successful medals on the district degree. Coming from a humble background, the Indian weightlifter began coaching at a makeshift facility in a neighborhood farm and his brother Alok was an enormous issue within the success he had achieved in his profession.

Sheuli went on to win the Khelo India Youth video games gold medal in 2018 and the next 12 months received his maiden main medal on the senior degree, clinching Gold within the Commonwealth Championships.

Achinta has been constantly enhancing on the highest degree and received silver on the World Youth Weightlifting Championship in 2021 and adopted it up along with his second Commonwealth Championships gold medal in the identical 12 months.

The 20-year-old, who idolises Mirabhai Chanu, has now introduced his arrival on the world stage with a bronze in Birmingham. Early indicators do present that he’s set to develop into one other gem within the jewels possessed by India within the weightlifting self-discipline.

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