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Asian Games: Mirabai Chanu targets missing medal in her trophy cabinet – Times of India

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: The Asian Games hasn't been a happy hunting ground for Indian weightlifters. The country boasts of 14 medals at the continental multisport event - five silver and nine bronze - but it's been 25 long years, spread across five editions of the Asiad, that an Indian weightlifter last finished on the podium.The last time India won an Asiad medal was way back in 1998 in Bangkok, when Karnam Malleswari had secured a silver. At the last edition of the Games, a four-member Indian weightlifting contingent had returned empty-handed. Tokyo Olympics silver medallist and reigning CWG champion, Saikhom Mirabai Chanu, wants to end the nation's long wait for a weightlifting medal. In fact, the diminutive Manipuri seeks to end India's 72-year-long wait for an Asiad weightlifting gold whe...

Haven’t been able to speak to my family in two days: Asian Championship silver medallist Manipur’s Bindyarani Devi | More sports News – Times of India

[ad_1] NEW DELHI: In faraway Korea, Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi on Saturday wondered if the news of her silver medal-winning effort at the Asian Championship had reached her parents, in violence-hit Manipur.More importantly, she was thinking if they were safe, for she hasn't been able to speak with them for the past two days owing to the internet shutdown arising out of the ethnic violence in her native state, rendering the people there incommunicado.When PTI contacted her in Jinju, the place where she put aside all her concerns related to the conflict to stand on the podium while representing her country, the 24-year-old athlete broke down on the phone."I haven't been able to speak to my parents for the past two days," a sobbing Bindyarani said a couple of hours after her win."H...

India’s Bindyarani Devi wins silver at Asian Championships | More sports News – Times of India

[ad_1] JINJU (Korea): Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi was quick to make amends after an underwhelming performance in snatch section as she clinched an overall silver in the women's 55kg competition at the Asian Championships here on Saturday.The Commonwealth Games silver medallist had a total effort of 194kg (83kg+111kg), as she opened India's medal tally in this edition of the championship.She also won the silver in the clean and jerk section. However, the medals are in a non-Olympic weight category.The Manipuri had two failed lifts -- one each in snatch and clean jerk. But a gold medal would have been out of her grasp even if she had completed those two lifts.Chen Guan Ling of Chinese Taipei won the gold with a 204kg (90kg+114kg) effort while Vietnam's Vo Thi Quynh Nhu 192kg (88kg+...