India’s Jhilli Dalabehera wins her maiden gold medal at Asian Weightlifting Championship

Jhilli dalabehera gained the gold medal inside the 45kg class, a non-olympic occasion.Jhilli lifted 69kg inside the grab and accompanied that up by using 88kg in clean jerk.

In advance, mirabai chanu had won the bronze medal on the asian championship India''s jhilli dalabehera clinched the gold medal inside the 45kg class on the asian weightlifting championship in tashkent, uzbekistan on sunday. 

Jhilli, a junior global championship bronze medallist, lifted 69kg in the take hold of and observed that up by using 88kg in smooth jerk for a total of 157kg at the gold degree olympic qualifier event which turned into postponed closing year because of the pandemic. But, 45kg is not an olympic weight class.

In spite of triumphing the gold on sunday, dalabehera''s turned into nowhere close to her private great. Her 157kg general become lesser than the 162kg (71kg+91kg) she had lifted at the same occasion in 2019.

With the win, jhilli bettered her silver-winning performance inside the final version. However, it became an underwhelming overall performance as she had lifted 162kg (71kg+91kg) at the identical occasion in 2019.

Her gold changed into india''s 2nd medal of the event as superstar weightlifter mirabai chanu smashed the arena document in the clean and jerk category en direction a bronze medal on saturday.

The olympic-sure chanu lifted 86kg in clutch and a world document of 119kg in easy and jerk for a complete of 205kg, which was also her non-public first-rate.