Birmingham Commonwealth Games gold medallist 2022 and India's star weightlifter Mirabai Chanu continued her dominance in Bogota as she stunned Olympic champion Hou Zhihua to clinch silver medal in women's 49 kg event at the Weightlifting World Championships on Tuesday (December 6).
Mirabai lifted a total of 200 kg (87kg snatch + 113kg clean & jerk), two more than the Chinese star weightlifter (198kg). However, Jiang Huihua from China pocketed the elusive gold medal by lifting 206 kg (93+113).
Mirabai didn't get off to an impressive start as she started slowly with an 85 kg lift in snatch. However, she cleared her third lift after faltering in the second attempt at 87 kg as she was running fifth by the end of third attempt. She failed on her first attempt at the clean and jerk but powered through to lift 111kg in her second attempt. This immediately lifted her into the medal positions.
It was Mirabai’s second medal at a Worlds after having earlier won gold in the 2017 World Championships. Earlier this year she had clinched Commonwealth Games gold.
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This was Mirabai's second medal at the World Championships after she secured a gold medal back in 2017 - an edition when neither of the two Chinese lifters were present because China had been temporarily suspended for past doping violations. In the next edition of the marquee event in 2019, Mirabai ended up securing third spot behing them.
