Commonwealth Games Weightlifting

Commonwealth Games: Lovepreet Singh wins bronze medal for India's 14th medal in Birmingham

By clinching the bronze medal, Lovepreet became the ninth weightlifter to return with a bronze from the Games in the UK.

Commonwealth Games: Weightlifter Vikas Thakur claims silver medal in men's 96kg

Weightlifter Vikas Thakur lifted a total of 346kg for the silver ahead of Fiji's Taniela Rainibogi, who lifted 343 kg for the bronze

Commonwealth Games: Punjab government announces Rs 40 lakh cash award for bronze medallist weightlifter Harjinder Kaur

Harjinder totalled 212kgs (93 in snatch and 119 in clean and jerk) to finish on the podium in the 71kg category on Monday night.

Commonwealth Games: Weightlifter Harjinder Kaur claims bronze medal

An unexpected failure of Nigeria's Joy Ogbonne Eze — a prominent gold medal contender after lifting 100kg in snatch — to lift 125kg in her all three attempts meant she went out of the medal run and opened the bronze medal shot for Harjinder.

Commonwealth Games: Weightlifter Ajay Singh misses medal by a whisker, finishes fourth

Ajay Singh managed a total effort of 319kg (143kg+176kg) to finish fourth best in the men's 81kg event.

Commonwealth Games: Injured weightlifter Sanket Sargar to stay back in UK for UCL treatment

Despite of an injury, Sanket had returned for a third attempt in his 55kg category match, but that only aggravated his injury and he failed to complete the lift.

Commonwealth Games 2022: Have worked hard for this medal, says Achinta Sheuli after bagging gold

Sheuli set a new Commonwealth Games record in snatch (143kg) and also lifted 170kg in Clean and Jerk

Commonwealth Games: Meet gold medallist Achinta Sheuli, who was once forced to take up embroidery

Weightlifter Achinta Sheuli added to India's medal tally at the 2022 Commonwealth Games with a gold in the men's 73kg category on Day 3 of the event.

Commonwealth Games: Jeremy Lalrinnunga, Achinta Sheuli strike gold in weightlifting; Nikhat Zareen into quarter-finals

That took India’ s gold medal tally to three this CWG, with Mirabai Chanu having won one earlier, in the women’s 49 kg category.

Commonwealth Games: Watch | Top five moments from CWG Day 3 as Jeremy Lalrinnunga, Achinta Sheuli win gold medals

After four medals on Day 2 by Indian weightlifters, Day 3 of the Commonwealth Games belonged to the weightlifters as well with two gold medals coming from two of the youngest members of the discipline at the quadrennial event in Birmingham on Sunday