Mirabai Chanu broke her own national record which really is a big deal.?
She clinched gold at the senior National Weightlifting Championships. She lifted 203kg to win the 49kg gold. It broke her her previous record of 201 at the World Championships last year.
She lifted 88kgs in snatch and 115 kg in clean and jerk. Now she is ranked 4th in the world behind Jiang Huihua (212kg), Hou Zhihui (211kg) and Korea's Ri Song Gum (209kg).?
The Nationals serve as a testing ground for Chanu and other leading weightlifters ahead of the Olympic gold event Asian Championships that will be held in April in Nur-Sultan, Kazakhstan.?
Earlier, Youth Olympic champion Jeremy Lalrinnunga (17) bettered his clean and jerk record to win the men's 67kg title.
The teenage Mizoram lifter, who became the first Indian to win gold at the Youth Olympic Games in Argentina in 2018, lifted 132 kg after two failed efforts but saved his best for the last in clean and jerk to lift 167 kg. His total was 299 kg. His personal best of 306 kg recorded at the International Qatar Cup was not bettered though.?