Chhattisgarh
Gyaneshwari Yadav wins silver medal at World Junior Weightlifting Championships
- 04 May 2022
- 2 min read
Why In News?
- On May 3, 2022, in the women's category, rising weightlifter Gyaneshwari Yadav of Chhattisgarh represented India in the women's category at the ongoing World Junior Weightlifting Championships in Heracleon, Greece, representing India in the 156kg category. He won the silver medal by lifting the weight.
Key Point
- Gyaneshwari Yadav of Rajnandgaon scored 49 kg. A total of 156 kg in the weight class. He won the silver medal by lifting weights. He was 73 kg. in snatch and 83 kg. Lifted weights in clean and jerk.
- In this category, India's Ritika scored 150 kg. While indonesia's Ayesha Kantika Windy won the bronze medal by lifting the weight, Indonesia's Ayesha Kantika Windy won the 185kg. He won the gold medal by lifting the weight.
- It may be mentioned that Gyaneshwari is the first player from the state to play the World Championships and win a medal in the junior category. Earlier, Rustam Sarang, Ajaydeep Sarang, Anita Shinde, Madhusudan Janghel, Keshav Sahu and Jagdish Vishwakarma of Chhattisgarh have also represented India in the global tournament but could not win medals.
- Gyaneshwari had won the bronze medal for the first time at the Guwahati School National in Assam in 2018-19. Then in 2019-20, he won a silver medal at school nationals, a silver medal at the National Youth Championships in 2020-21, a silver medal in the National Junior Weightlifting Competition held at Bhubaneswar in 2021-22 and also a silver medal in the All India Vivi tournament.
