New high for Mirabai Former world champ Chanu lifts 203 kg to better national record and win gold in Kolkata; insists preparations are on track for Asian Championships in April national weightlifting Kolkata: Olympic medal hopeful and former world champion Mirabai Chanu bettered her own national record by lifting a total of 203kg to win the 49kg gold in the National Weightlifting Championships here on Tuesday.
Mirabaiu2019s previous best of 201kg had come at the World Championship in Thailand in September last year, where she had finished fourth.
Mirabai was targeting 207kg but lost her balance in the final attempts of both the snatch and clean and jerk. She started off by easily lifting 85kg in snatch, and raised the weight to 88kg for her second attempt, which was one kg more than the national record and her personal best of 87kg.
She, however, looked supremely confident in her favourite clean and jerk as she raised the weight from 111kg to 115kg in her first two successful attempts, thereby bettering her previous national record of 114kg. In her final clean and jerk attempt, Mirabai first went for 116kg but after a quick thinking, she opted for 117kg with national coach Vijay Sharma cheering her strongly.
She made a clean lift to the rack position and took a long five- second pause before going for the jerk. She, however, failed in her attempt to settle for a total of 203kg, bettering three national records in the process.
Room for improvement u201c I still have some time left for the Asian Championships and I hope to get there [ 210 kg] before the Olympics,u201d Mirabai told reporters. u201c Everything is going according to our plan.
Every day, we are getting in there. Our target is to achieve 206- 207kg at the Asian Championships ( Nur- Sultan, Kazakhstan in April). Itu2019s all about making some technical adjustments now,u201d she added.
PTI Indiau2019s Mirabai Chanu during the 48kg final at the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia in 2018. pic/ Getty Imag es
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