Claim the men’s 96kg gold medal in the Weightlifting Zone of the National Games here on Monday
Claim the men’s 96kg gold medal in the Weightlifting Zone of the National Games here on Monday
of Arunachal Pradesh sambo lapung Sewas conquered his love of fast food to break the three-year-old clean and jerk record of lifter Vikas Thakur and claim the men’s 96kg gold medal in the weightlifting sector. National sport Here on Monday.
The twenty-five-year-old Sambo bagged 148kg in the snatch and 198kg in his final clean jerk attempt, a kg more than Vikas’s previous record, 346kg in total and beating Services’ Jagdish by 15kg.
A boxer who took up weightlifting to avoid punishment from his boxing coach, Sambo’s performance was 10kg more than his own gold-medal winning total of 336kg. National Championship in Bhubaneswar in March.
“I came here to compete with myself and had a look at the record,” Sambo said.
Sambo coach Yuker Sibi said he was strict about the weightlifter’s diet. “Sambo is a lover of fast food and was disqualified from the 2021 nationals for being overweight. So I kept an eye on his diet. We have been targeting this record for some time now,” Sibi said.
Lovepreet Singh Gold Medalist in 109kg Weightlifting in Men’s Weightlifting at the 36th National Games 2022 in Gandhinagar on Monday, October 3, 2022. photo credit: Vijay Soni
Commonwealth Games bronze medalist Lovepreet Singh put on a total of 338kg, down from her 355kg performance in Birmingham to ensure a 109kg gold before giving up on her last two attempts.
Result: Men: 96 kg: 1. Sambo Lapung Snatch 148 kg, clean and jerk 198 kg (NR, Old 197, Vikas Thakur, 2019), total 346 kg; 2. Jagdish (SSCB) 176kg, 187kg, 331kg; 3. Parveen (Har) 141 kg, 171 kg, 312 kg.
109 kg: 1. Lovepreet Singh (SSCB) 158kg, 180kg, 338kg; 2. Vishal Solanki (Every) 147kg, 176kg, 323kg; 3. Naveen (every) 145 kg, 177 kg, 322 kg.
Women: 87 kg: 1. Komal Wakale (Maharashtra) 94kg, 116kg, 210kg; 2. BN Usha (Kr) 95kg, 114kg, 209kg, 3. T. Satya Jyothi (AP) 90kg, 111kg, 201kg.