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World Championships: Mirabai Chanu bags silver medal in 48 kg category

Tokyo Olympics medallist Chanu bags second place with 199kg lift at World Championships; says it bodes well in lead up to 2028 LA Games

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Star Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu. Pic/PTI

Star Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu. Pic/PTI

Star Indian weightlifter Mirabai Chanu clinched a silver medal at the World Championships in the 48kg category here, extending her glittering record in the marquee event where she has been on the podium twice earlier — she won the gold medal at Anaheim, USA in 2017 and a silver in Bogota, Colombia, in 2022.

Chanu, a four-time gold medallist at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships, produced a total lift of 199kg (84kg in snatch + 115kg in clean and jerk) to be among the medal winners after moving down from the 49kg weight division.

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