Odisha’s Jhilli Dalabehera wins silver in Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship
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Tashkent (Uzbekistan): Odisha’s Jhilli Dalabehera gained a silver medal within the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, which is being held alongside the World Championships.
Jhilli, the 22-year weightlifter from tribal Mayurbhanj district, completed second within the girls’s 49 kg, the identical weight class during which Mirabai Chanu gained silver in Tokyo Olympics Games. Mirabai will not be collaborating on this occasion as she is on a break.
Jhilli, who’s an Asian champion and a bronze medallist within the World junior in 45kg however has moved as much as 49kg as 45kg will not be a recognised Olympic self-discipline, got here up with the very best effort of 73kg in snatch and 94 kg in clear and jerk for a complete of 167kg — her private greatest on this class.
She completed second within the Commonwealth nations, behind Nigeria’s Peter Stella Kingsley, who lifted 168kg (72 + 96).
Though the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship is a qualifying occasion for subsequent 12 months’s Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, Jhilli might clinch her berth on Thursday as solely the gold medallists at Tashkent make the grade.
