{"id":282530,"date":"2026-05-11T00:27:45","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:57:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/?p=282530"},"modified":"2026-05-11T00:27:45","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T18:57:45","slug":"charu-pesi-to-compete-at-asian-senior-weightlifting-cships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/2026\/05\/11\/charu-pesi-to-compete-at-asian-senior-weightlifting-cships\/","title":{"rendered":"Charu Pesi to compete at Asian Senior Weightlifting C&#8217;ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>ITANAGAR, 10 May:<\/strong> Lifter Charu Pesi from Arunachal Pradesh will represent India at the Asian Senior Weightlifting Championships-2026, beginning in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He will compete in the 65kg category, the Arunachal Weightlifting Association said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">India has fielded a 16-member team with eight participants each in the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s category, while an additional four athletes have earned participation slots as hosts, PTI reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The squad also includes a number of rising talents, with Bedabrat Bharali and Gyaneshwari Yadav regarded among the promising youngsters to watch during the weeklong event.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu will miss the event as she continues to recover from a shoulder niggle. Her absence leaves the spotlight on experienced campaigners such as Commonwealth medallists Bindyarani Devi, Harjinder Kaur and Lovepreet Singh.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In the last edition, India returned empty-handed with only two lifters taking part in the event in China in 2025.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Originally scheduled for April, the championships were postponed because of tensions in western Asia.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The report stated that the tournament will feature a stacked field of over 170 athletes from 30 countries, including guest nations Australia and New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The competition will also feature several Olympic and world champions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;China&#8217;s Liu Huanhua, the reigning Olympic and world champion in the 102kg category, headlines the field.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;Qatar&#8217;s Fares Ibrahim, who won the Olympic gold medal in Tokyo, will also compete, alongside North Korean world champions Kang Hyon Gyong and Ri Suk,&#8221; the news agency said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ITANAGAR, 10 May: Lifter Charu Pesi from Arunachal Pradesh will represent India at the Asian Senior Weightlifting Championships-2026, beginning in Gandhinagar, Gujarat, on Monday. He will compete in the 65kg category, the Arunachal Weightlifting Association said. India has fielded a 16-member team with eight participants each in the men&#8217;s and women&#8217;s category, while an additional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282532,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-282530","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\/282530","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=282530"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282530\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282533,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282530\/revisions\/282533"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}