Vikas Thakur
Vikas Thakur completes hattrick of CWG medal with a silver in men's 96kg weightlifting
Birmingham/IBNS/UNI: Indian weightlifter Vikas Thakur on Tuesday completed the hat-trick of Commonwealth Games medals after clinching the silver in the men's 96kg event with a lift of 346 kg.
Thakur's best lift of 155kg in Snatch and 191kg in Clean and Jerk helped him to win his second silver at the 2022 CWG.
He won the silver in 2014 Glasgow and bagged the bronze in Gold Coast in the 2018 edition.
Samoa’s Don Opeloge won the gold medal with a Games record total of 381kg (171kg+210kg). Taniela Tuisuva Rainibogi took the bronze with 343kg (115+188kg).
Prime Minister Narendra Modi in his congratulatory tweet wrote: "More glory at the CWG, this time due to Vikas Thakur, who wins a Silver in Weightlifting. Delighted by his success. His dedication to sports is commendable. Wishing him the very best for upcoming endeavours."
More glory at the CWG, this time due to Vikas Thakur, who wins a Silver in Weightlifting. Delighted by his success. His dedication to sports is commendable. Wishing him the very best for upcoming endeavours. pic.twitter.com/IknoAvQiXf
— Narendra Modi (@narendramodi) August 2, 2022
The 28-year-old Indian started successfully registering 149kg in the opening lift in the snatch round followed by 153 kg and 155kg.
In the clean and Jerk, he opened with 187kg and successfully attempted 191kg in the second attempt which guarantee him a silver medal. Thakur went for 198kg in the final attempt but failed to complete the lift.
This was India’s eighth weightlifting medal in this edition of CWG. Sanket Sargar (men’s 55kg silver), Gururaja Poojary (men’s 61kg bronze), Mirabai Chanu (women’s 49kg gold), Bindyarani Devi (women’s 55kg silver), Jeremy Lalrinnunga (men’s 67kg gold), Achinta Sheuli (men’s 73kg gold) and Harjinder Kaur (women’s 71kg bronze) are the other medallists.
India have so far won 12 medals including 5 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze and sits sixth in the tally.
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