Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu will miss the World Championship and the Commonwealth Senior Championship slated to tak...
Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu will miss the World Championship and the Commonwealth Senior Championship slated to take place simultaneously between December 7 to 17 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.
Chanu, who won a silver medal in the women’s 49kg category at the Tokyo Olympics earlier this year and is also a former world champion, withdrew from the two events on the advice of India head coach Vijay Sharma.
“Our main aim (for world championship and Commonwealth Senior Championship) is that the lifters qualify for next year’s Commonwealth Games,” Sharma told PTI.
“We had sent Mira’s entry but her performance is not very proper right now. We are working on her snatch technique a little.
Her qualification (for CWG) is not an issue because she won the silver in Olympics and she’s also ranked number one at the moment,” he added.
The Commonwealth Senior Championship was earlier scheduled to be held in Singapore from October 20 to 24 but was cancelled due to Covid-19. It will now take place simultaneously and at the same venue alongside the world championship next month.
Twenty weightlifters from the country, including Youth Olympic gold medallist Jeremy Lalrinnunga, will be competing in the tournament.
Chanu, who holds the world record in the clean and jerk event in the 49kg category...
