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TOKYO, 24 Jul:<\/strong> Mirabai Chanu ended India’s 21-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics by clinching a silver medal in the 49 kg category to open the country’s account here on Saturday<\/p>\n The 26-year-old lifted a total of 202 kgs (87 kgs + 115 kgs) to better Karnam Malleswari’s bronze in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. With this, she exorcised the ghosts of the 2016 Games, where she had failed to log a single legitimate lift.<\/p>\n The gold went to China’s Hou Zhihui with an effort of 210 kgs (94 kgs + 116 kgs), while Aisah Windy Cantika of Indonesia took home the bronze with an effort of 194 kgs (84 kgs + 110 kgs).<\/p>\n Considered her weakness in the run-up to the marquee event, Chanu attempted 84 kgs in her first snatch attempt. The Manipuri took her time and cleanly heaved the barbell.<\/p>\n She lifted 87 kgs in her next attempt and raised the weight to 89 kgs, which was one 1 kg more than her personal best of 88 kgs that she had lifted at the national championship last year.<\/p>\n However, she was unable to better her personal best and settled for 87 kgs in the snatch event, only behind leader Zhihui, who created a new Olympic record with an effort of 94 kgs.<\/p>\n The Chinese lifter also holds the world mark (96 kgs) in the category.<\/p>\n In the clean jerk, Chanu, the world record holder in the section, lifted 110 kgs and 115 kgs in the first two attempts.<\/p>\n However, she was unable to raise 117 kgs in her final attempt, but it was enough to fetch her a medal and open India’s account.<\/p>\n The diminutive Manipuri broke down after realizing that she has secured a medal and hugged her coach in jubilation.<\/p>\n She later broke into a dance too to celebrate the historic podium finish. (PTI)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" TOKYO, 24 Jul: Mirabai Chanu ended India’s 21-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics by clinching a silver medal in the 49 kg category to open the country’s account here on Saturday The 26-year-old lifted a total of 202 kgs (87 kgs + 115 kgs) to better Karnam Malleswari’s bronze in the 2000 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":167407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-167406","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167406","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=167406"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/167406\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/167407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=167406"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=167406"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=167406"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}