India’s weightlifting contingent has extended its superb showing at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Australia, with Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu winning gold in the women’s 53kg event and teenaged debutant Deepak Lather claiming bronze in the men’s 69kg event.
Weightlifter Khumukcham Sanjita Chanu has delivered India its second gold medal of the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast City, Australia by dominating the women’s 53kg event at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre on Friday.
Teenager Deepak Lather has extended India’s weightlifting medal tally at the 2018 Commonwealth Games to four by winning bronze in the men’s 69kg event. In his first appearance at the quadrennial games, the 18-year-old from the village of Shadipur in Haryana – who was once enrolled at Pune’s Army Sports Institute as a diver – finished with a combined effort of 295kg (136 in snatch and 159 in clean & jerk) at the Carrara Sports and Leisure Centre on Friday.
