Mirabai Chanu

Mirabai Chanu ended India's 21-year wait for a weightlifting medal at the Olympics by clinching a silver medal in the 49kg category to open the country's account here on Saturday.
The 26-year-old lifted a total of 202kg (87kg+115kg) to better Karnam Malleswari's bronze in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. With this, she exorcised the ghosts of the 2016 Games where she had failed to log a single legitimate lift.
The gold went to China's Hou Zhihui with an effort of 210kg (94kg+116kg) , while Aisah Windy Cantika of Indonesia took home the bronze with an effort of 194kg (84kg+110kg).
Considered her weakness in the run up to the marquee event, Chanu attempted 84kg in her first snatch attempt. The Manipuri took her time and cleanly heaved the barbell.
She lifted 87kg in her next attempt and raised the weight to 89kg, which was one 1kg more than her personal best of 88kg that she had lifted at the national championship last year.
However, she was unable to better her personal best and settled f

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	<strong>What is Weightlifting?</strong></h4>
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	Often referred to as weightlifting, Olympic-style weightlifting is a sport in which the athlete attempts a maximum-weight single lift of a barbell loaded with weight plates. It was first featured in the modern Olympics in the 1896 Athens Games.</div>
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	As a way to measure strength, weightlifting was practiced both by ancient Egyptian and Greek societies but was developed as an international sport primarily in the 19th century.</div>
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	In 1920, the International Weightlifting Federation was formed to regularise events and supervise international competitions.</div>
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	<strong>Competitions</strong></div>
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	The two competition lifts are the snatch and the clean and jerk.</div>
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	The snatch is a wide-grip, one-move lift, whereas the clean and jerk is a close-grip, two-move lift.</div>
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	Each weightlifter receives three attempts in each, and the combined total of the highest two successful lifts determines the overall result within a bodyweight category.</div>
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	A lifter who fails to complete at least one successful snatch and one successful clean and jerk also fails to total, and therefore receives an &quot;incomplete&quot; entry for the competition.</div>
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	At the beginning of the 20th century, Austria, Germany and France were the most successful nations. However, in the 1950s, the Soviet Union&rsquo;s weightlifters rose to prominence and stayed there until the 1990s, when China, Turkey, Greece, and Iran catapulted to the lead. In the women&rsquo;s field, China has been dominant since the very beginning.</div>
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	Bodyweight categories are different for male and female competitors and change over time.</div>
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	Men&rsquo;s competitions are divided into eight categories: 56 kg, 62 kg, 69 kg, 77 kg, 85 kg, 94 kg, 105 kg, and more than 105 kg.</div>
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	For women, there are seven divisions: 48 kg, 53 kg, 58 kg, 63 kg, 69 kg, 75 kg, and more than 75 kg.</div>
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	<strong>Equipment</strong></div>
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	The weight used in competitive lifting is the barbell, a steel bar or rod to which cast-iron or steel disk weights are attached at each end on a revolving sleeve. The range of weights added is 25, 20, 15, 10, 5, 2.5, and 1.25 kg.</div>
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	The diameter and length of barbells are different and are often denoted by men&rsquo;s or women&rsquo;s size, with men&rsquo;s being longer, wider and heavier.</div>


India's Achanta Sharath Kamal and Manika Batra. (Photo: PTI)

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