Indian Weightlifters Sanket Sargar wins silver medal, P. Gururaja bags bronze at 2022 Birmingham CWG
Indian weightlifter Sanket Mahadev Sargar helped India to get its first medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games (CWG), by claiming silver in the men’s 55kg category on July 30, 2022.
The 21-year-old lifted a total of 248kg (113kg+135kg) to finish second.
Mohamad Aniq of Malaysia lifted 249kg (107kg+142kg) to win the gold and Dilanka Isuru Kumara of Sri Lanka lifted 225kg (105kg+120kg) to claim the bronze medal.
Apart from this, Weightlifter Gururaja Poojary bagged a bronze medal in the men’s 61-kg category to get the second medal for the country.
Gururaja lifted a total of 269kg (118kg+151kg) to finish third.
Gold was won by Malaysia’s Aznil Bin Bidin Muhamad with a lift of 285kg (127+158).
Morea Baru of Papua New Guinea bagged silver with a total lift of 273kg (121+152).
