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Pardeshi Leads India to Seven Medals at Commonwealth Weightlifting With Record Junior Total

India’s haul underscored rising depth spanning junior to senior fields at the Ahmedabad meet.

Overview

  • Teenager Sairaj Pardeshi won the junior men’s 88kg with 348kg (157kg snatch, 191kg clean and jerk), breaking the Commonwealth junior snatch mark and surpassing the senior winning total of 347kg.
  • Ajaya Babu Valluri claimed senior men’s 79kg gold with a 335kg total, setting championship records in both snatch (152kg) and clean and jerk (183kg).
  • Bedabrat Bharali swept junior men’s 79kg records, posting 145kg in snatch, 181kg in clean and jerk and a 326kg total to secure gold.
  • Dilbag Singh earned senior men’s 94kg silver with 342kg, finishing one kilogram behind Malaysia’s Mohammad Syahmi Bin Nor Ghazali.
  • Vanshita Verma took senior women’s 86kg bronze at 222kg as Australia’s Eileen Cikamatana won gold with 255kg, contributing to India’s reported seven-medal tally.