The President and the Prime Minister on Sunday congratulated weightlifter, Jeremy Lalrinnunga on winning gold medal at Commonwealth Games in Birmingham.
In a tweet President Droupadi Mumru said, \u201cCongratulations, Jeremy Lalrinnunga for winning gold in Weightlifting at #CommonwealthGames. Your self-belief despite injury during the event enabled you to create history & inspire millions.Your podium finish has filled Indians with pride. Wishing you more such moments of glory.\u201d
Vice President M. Venkaiah Naidu, in a tweet, said, \u201cOur weightlifters continue to make India proud with their stupendous performances. Heartiest congratulations to @raltejeremy for bagging a gold medal in Men\u2019s 67kg weightlifting competition at @birminghamcg22. My best wishes for his future endeavours.\u201d
Congratulating Lalrinnunga, Prime Minister Narendra Modi tweeted, \u201cOur Yuva Shakti is creating history! Congratulations to @raltejeremy, who has won a Gold in his very first CWG and has set a phenomenal CWG record as well. At a young age he\u2019s brought immense pride and glory. Best wishes to him for his future endeavours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
India\u2019s medals at end of Day 2<\/strong> Manipuri weightlifter Bindyarani wins silver<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Bindyarani Devi won India a fourth medal on a successful day at the Commonwealth Games weightlifting arena in Birmingham, bagging a silver medal in the Women\u2019s 55 kg weight class. Young weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnunga smashed two Games records on his way to a sensational gold medal win at the Birmingham Commonwealth Games as he added a second yellow metal to India\u2019s tally on Sunday.The 2018 Youth Olympic champion dominated the men\u2019s 67kg competition with a total lift of 300kg (140kg+160kg), finishing ahead of Samoa\u2019s Vaipava […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":284969,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-284865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284865\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/284969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nagalandpost.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Gold – Mirabai Chanu – Weightlifting women\u2019s 49kg
Silver – Bindyarani Devi – Weightlifting women\u2019s 55kg
Silver – Sanket Sargar – Weightlifting men\u2019s 55kg
Bronze – Gururaja Poojary – Weightlifting men\u2019s 61kg
Gold – Jeremy Lalrinnunga – Weightlifting men\u2019s 67kg<\/p>\n\n\n\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.nagalandpost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/CWG222-1024x576.jpg\")
The 22-year-old from Manipur lifted a total weight of 202 kg with a superb attempt of 116 kg in her final turn in clean and jerk to leapfrog England\u2019s Fraer Morrow (198) and finished just 1kg adrift of Nigeria\u2019s Adijat Adenike Dlarindye, who ended with a total of 203 kg, a Games record. Bindyarani, who managed a best effort of 86 kg in the snatch category, placing behind the Nigerian 92 kg and the English girl 88 kg, came back strongly in clean and jerk, which is her stronger side as she made up for the gap with two superb lifts.
In a desperate attempt in her third and final chance, Bindyarani lifted 116 kg in her final clean and jerk effort, to break the Games record and move to 202 kg and claim the silver medal. This was Bindyarani\u2019s first medal in the Commonwealth Games.
Earlier on Saturday, Mirabai Chanu won gold medal in women\u2019s 49 kg, Sanket Sargar took silver in men\u2019s 55 kg and Gururaja Poojary bagged a bronze medal in men\u2019s 61kg as India started its medal hunt with four medals from the weightlifting arena.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"