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CWG: Sukhen Dey wins India's second gold, bronze for Ganesh

Updated on: 25 July,2014 09:36 AM IST  | 
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India's Sukhen Dey has won the gold medal in the weighlifting category with a splendid lift in the clean and jerk while his compatriot Ganesh Mali took the bronze

CWG: Sukhen Dey wins India's second gold, bronze for Ganesh

Sukhen Dey

Glasgow: India's Sukhen Dey has won the gold medal with a splendid lift in the clean and jerk. His compatriot Ganesh Mali took the bronze.

Sukhen Dey
Sukhen Dey 


Dey comfortably lifted 139 kg in his second attempt even as the other weightlifters made heavy weather of it.


Dey, who won a silver behind Hamizan Aminul Ibrahim in the New Delhi Commonwealth Games four years ago with a total of 252 kg, ended up here with a total weight of 248 kg, leaving Malaysia's ZMD Pisol with the silver and temmate Mali with the bronze with a total weight of 244.


Incidentally, Srinivasa Rao, who won the bronze in Delhi, lifted 248 kg.

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