Personal best, gold for Jalandhar lifter Pardeep
Nationals: Chandigarh’s Deepika wins gold, Baljinder gets silver
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Kolkata, February 6
Commonwealth Games silver medallist Pardeep Singh produced his personal best in the snatch event to win the men’s 102kg gold in the National Weightlifting Championships.
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Pardeep lifted a personal best 151kg in his third snatch attempt and 195kg in clean and jerk for a total of 346kg.
RESULTS
Men: 96kg: Vikas Thakur (SSCB) (154 192=346); Jagdish Vishwakarma (Chhattisgarh) (147 180=327); Suresh Yadav (Odisha) (140 170=310); 102kg: Pardeep Singh (RSPB) (151 195=346); Shubham (SSCB) (145 180=325); Ashutosh Singh (Uttarakhand) (169 176=316)
AdvertisementWomen: 76kg: Deepika Handa (Chandigarh) (92 119=211); Arockiya Alish (Tamil Nadu) (89 118=207); A Tumina Devi (Manipur) (83 104=187); 81kg: Sharsti Singh (RSPB) (93 112=205); Baljinder Kaur (Chandigarh) (83 112=195); T Dharshini (Tamil Nadu) (85 109=194)
The Commonwealth Championships gold medallist, who hails from a farming family in Jandiala Manjki in Jalandhar district, lifted 195kg in his second clean and jerk attempt before raising the weight to 203kg. However, he could not control his lift as he faltered at the start to settle for a total of 346kg, which was still 21kg ahead of his Services rival Shubham (145 180).
At the Olympics qualifying Asian Championships in China last year, Pardeep had achieved his personal best in all the categories, totalling 351kg (150kg in snatch and 201 in clean and jerk) on his way to bronze in clean and jerk.
“This is pre-competition tournament for him. We are testing him ahead of the Kazakhstan Asian Championships where his target would be to achieve 203kg,” national coach Vijay Sharma said. — PTI
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