After Asian success India's youth weightlifters eye Commonwealth Games 2026 qualificationIndian athletes aim to reach higher levels after winning 33 medals at the Asian youth and junior weightlifting championships in Doha. They ...
28 Dec, 2024, 01.25 PM IST
India's Martina Devi clinches silver at Asian Junior Weightlifting ChampionshipsIndian lifter Martina Devi secured a silver medal in the women's junior +87kg category at the Asian Junior Weightlifting Championships, lif...
27 Dec, 2024, 09.30 AM IST
A year of turbulence: Mirabai Chanu and Indian weightlifting's unfulfilled dreamsMirabai Chanu, India's weightlifting star, aimed for a second Olympic medal in Paris 2024. She secured her spot despite an injury. Chanu fi...
23 Dec, 2024, 12.30 PM IST
Mirabai Chanu Olympics Match Live Streaming: Olympics weightlifting match time, where to watch, opponents, injury issues, medalsMirabai Chanu Olympics 2024 Live Streaming: Mirabai Chanu is aiming for her second Olympic medal, contending with fitness issues and a stro...
07 Aug, 2024, 05.21 PM IST
Siddhanta Gogoi crowned 61kg junior Asian champion; Gyaneshwari, Koyel win silver medalsThe 19-year-old Siddhanta, who had upstaged senior Shubham Todkar earlier this month at the Commonwealth Championships, lifted 265kg (116kg...
30 Jul, 2023, 10.09 PM IST
India will host Olympics in future, says Sports Minister Anurag Thakur"Our athletes are performing well and the federations are becoming more accountable. There is transparency, accountability and professional...
27 Jul, 2023, 10.03 PM IST
Mirabai Chanu will spearhead Indian campaign in World Weightlifting Championships in Riyadh from September 4Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who won silver at the Tokyo Olympics, will lead the country's challenge in the world weightlifting champ...
13 Jul, 2023, 03.38 PM IST
Indian lifters set for rich medal haul despite absence of MirabaiSince the 2011 edition of the Commonwealth Championships, India have finished as the best-performing nation every time barring in 2013 and ...
11 Jul, 2023, 01.16 PM IST
Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi wins silver at Asian ChampionshipsIndian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi lifted 80kg and 83kg in her first two snatch attempts with relative ease but her 85kg try was deemed a ...
06 May, 2023, 02.44 PM IST
Mirabai Chanu: Everything you need to know about the Indian Olympic silver medallistIndia have won their first medal at the Tokyo Olympics. And it's courtesy India's star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu, who has won the silver i...
24 Jul, 2021, 05.36 PM IST
Mirabai Chanu: Indian weightlifting's lone ranger at TokyoThe lone Indian weightlifter to qualify for the Tokyo Games, Chanu will be eager to make amends for the disappointing show at the 2016 Rio ...
18 Jul, 2021, 04.57 PM IST
As pain subsides, Mirabai hopes to make Asian GamesWorld champion weightlifter Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has clarified that she would need just two weeks of training to be ready for the competit...
25 Jul, 2018, 11.33 PM IST
I am innocent, will challenge suspension: Sanjita ChanuSanjita, who had won a gold in the women's 53kg category in the recent Gold Coast CWG, was suspended by the International Weightlifting Fed...
01 Jun, 2018, 01.34 PM IST
Doping menace comes back to haunt Indian weightlifting in 2015The two women lifters -- Pramila Krisani and Minati Sethi -- were caught for doping at the Commonwealth Championships in Pune in October an...
23 Dec, 2015, 01.07 PM IST
India to host international weightlifting event for first timeIndia will field 40 weightlifters - 11 youth (boys & girls), 16 junior (men & women) and 13 senior (men & women) - in the Commonwealth Cham...
26 Aug, 2015, 03.45 PM IST
Junior weightlifters end campaign with 14 medalsIndia won a silver on the last day of the competition today as Swapna Priya Baruah ended second in the Junior Women 69kg division.
05 Jan, 2015, 04.36 PM IST
Resolute Vikas Thakur lifts silver, boxers advance in CWGWrithing in pain, Thakur produced the lift of his life to clinch the silver in men's 85kg weightlifting, as Indian lifters continued their ...
29 Jul, 2014, 02.46 PM IST