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Mirabai Chanu wins Commonwealth Championships gold on return to actionMirabai Chanu secured a gold medal at the Commonwealth Championships in Ahmedabad. She lifted a total of 193kg. This performance broke Comm...25 Aug, 2025, 04.16 PM IST- India must prepare to host Olympics, figure in top 10 sporting nations in a decade: Mansukh MandaviyaUnion Minister Mansukh Mandaviya inaugurated the 2025 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Ahmedabad. The event is a qualifier for t...24 Aug, 2025, 11.03 PM IST
- 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
- 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
- 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
- CWG gold medallist Sanjita Chanu fails dope test, suspended provisionally by NADASanjita's sample was taken on September 30, the day she lifted a total of 187kg to finish second. Both her 'A' and 'B' samples have shown t...08 Jan, 2023, 12.07 AM 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
- CWG gold medallist Sanjita Chanu fails dope testThe IWF did not give details, such as the dates, of the dope test sample collection, saying "it will not make any further comments on the c...31 May, 2018, 10.46 PM IST
- Sanjita Chanu adds to weightlifting gold rush, breaks one CWG recordLoa Dika Toua of Papua New Guinea was distant second with 182 kg while New Zealand's Rachel Leblanc-Bazinet took bronze with 181 kg.06 Apr, 2018, 11.02 AM IST
- Lifter Gururaja claims silver, opens India's CWG medal accountSon of a truck driver, Gururaja had aspired to be a wrestler for the longest time before being pushed into weightlifting by a watchful coac...05 Apr, 2018, 09.07 AM 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
- Indian Weightlifting Federation forms five-member committee to look into dope scandalTwo Indian women lifters -- Pramila Krisani and Minati Sethi -- failed dope tests during the recently concluded Commonwealth Championships ...17 Nov, 2015, 03.54 PM IST
- DMK treasurer M K Stalin greets Arujuna awardee Satish Sivalingam from Tamil NaduStalin greeted Arjuna Awardee from Tamil Nadu under weight lifting category Satish Sivalingam and praised him for bringing glory to the Sta...30 Aug, 2015, 03.16 PM IST
- 14-member weightlifting team announced for World championshipsA 14-member team will vie for top honours besides Olympic berths for the country at the World Championships to be held from November 10 to ...26 Aug, 2015, 04.04 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
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