Mirabai Chanu sets new national record to win gold at Senior National Weightlifting Championships
- The 72nd Men and 35th Women Senior National Weightlifting Championships 2019-20 is going on in Kolkata from 2-7 February 2020.
- Former world champion weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu beat her own national record to win the 49 kg gold at the Championships on 4th February 2020.
- Manipur-based Mirabai lifted a total of 203 kg to win the gold, bettering her previous record of 201 kg which she had achieved at the World Championships in Thailand in 2019.
- With this, she has been elevated to fourth place in the world rankings behind China’s Jiang Huihua (212kg) and Hou Zhihui (211kg) and Korea’s Ri Song Gum (209kg).
- In addition to this, Services lifter Sambo Lapung scripted a new National record to take the gold medal in men’s 89kg, lifting total of 333kg.
Other gold medal winners include:
- Papul Changmai (SSCB) – men’s 81kg
- Sambo Lapung (SSCB) – men’s 89kg
- Jeremy Lalrinnunga (Mizoram) – men’s 67kg
- Rakhi Halder (West Bengal) – women’s 64kg
- Lalchhanhimi (Mizoram) – women’s 71kg