Asian Championship: Lifter Achinta Sheuli finishes second in males’s 73kg group B

Indian weightlifter Achinta Sheuli completed second within the 73kg group B competitors on the Asian Championship in Chennai on Tuesday.
The Commonwealth Championship gold medallist lifted 309kg — 139kg in snatch adopted by 170kg in clear and jerk.
The Indian had the most effective snatch elevate (139kg) within the four-man area. However, he did not elevate 174kg in his last clear and jerk try which might have seen him high the group.
Kazakhstan’s Sairamkez Akmolda 310kg (130kg+180kg) completed first within the group.
Achinta’s last standing might be decided after the top of the group A proceedings.
India has gained two medals within the ongoing continental occasion. Ace weightlifter and former world champion Mirabai Chanu and Odisha’s Jhilli Dalabehera bagged the bronze and gold medals respectively final week.
Olympic-bound Mirabai smashed the world report within the girls’s 49kg clear and jerk en-route her bronze. She lifted 86kg in snatch earlier than setting a brand new world mark of 119kg in clear and jerk for a complete of 205kg.
While Jhilli, a junior world championship bronze medallist, took dwelling the gold within the girls’s 45kg occasion, which although is a non-Olympic class.
The Asian Weightlifting Championships is a gold stage qualifying occasion of the Tokyo Games. The factors gathered from this occasion will come in useful when the ultimate rankings for the Olympics are made.