CWG 2022: Bindyarani Devi wins Silver in weightlifting, India’s 4th medal on Day 2

Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi secured a Silver within the Women’s 55 kg class to safe India’s fourth medal on the Commonwealth Games 2022.

Devi secured India’s fourth medal of the day in weightlifting (Courtesy: Reuters)

HIGHLIGHTSDevi’s medal too India’s tally to 4 on Day twoMirabhai Chanu, Sanket Sargar and Gururaja Poojary had secured medals earlier within the dayDevi lifted a complete of 202 kgs in the course of the occasion

Bindyarani Devi capped off a positive day for Indian weightlifters as she secured a bronze medal within the Women’s 55 kg class on Saturday.

Devi’s medal was India’s fourth of Day two and from weightlifting. Earlier within the day, Mirabhai Chanu secured the nation’s first gold of this 12 months’s Commonwealth Games within the Women’s 49 kg class. Sanket Sargar secured the silver medal within the males’s 55 kg class and Gururaja Poojary bagged bronze within the males’s 61 kg class.

The 23-year-old began off the snatch spherical with a raise of 81 kg to place herself within the prime three. Devi would then go on to raise 84 kg in her second try and made it three in three. She lifted 86 kg within the third try.

Devi began the clear and jerk spherical with a 110 raise in her first try. The indian weightlifter failed within the second try whereas making an attempt to raise 114 kgs. In a battle with England’s Fraer Morrow for the Silver, Devi upped the ante and went for a 116 kg raise and executed it cleanly to take the second spot on the rostrum.

Women’s 55kg remaining outcomes

Her third try within the spherical was a Commonwealth Games file and a private finest. Nigeria’s Adijat Adenike Olarinoye secured the gold medal within the occasion by a whisker as she lifted a complete of 203 kgs. Devi’s tally from each snatch and clear and jerk got here to 202 kgs.

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