Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu, competing after a yr since her fourth-place end at Paris 2024, warmed up for subsequent month’s World championships with the ladies’s 48 kg gold in the Commonwealth weightlifting championships on the Veer Savarkar Sports Complex, Naranpura, in on Monday (August 25, 2025).
Mirabai lifted 84 kg (snatch) and 109 kg (clear and jerk) to take the top spot in a discipline of seven. Though she minimize one additional kilo to suit into the brand new weight class, she certified for the 2026 Commonwealth Games with out pushing herself a lot. Mirabai’s complete of 193 kg was 32 kg greater than that of the second-placed Irene Jane Henry of Malaysia.
While successful her first gold in the meet on house soil, Mirabai, who had bagged a silver behind Sanjita Chanu in Pune in 2015, set three new Commonwealth data.
Rishianta Singh aggregated 271 kg to beat Malaysia’s 55kg Commonwealth Games gold medallist Aniq Kasdan by 18kg for the 60 kg gold.
Dharmajyoti Dewgharia (224 kg) claimed the boys’s junior and youth titles in 56 kg, whereas Arumugapandian Maharajan (254 kg) gained the 60 kg junior and youth crowns.
Soumya Dalvi (177 kg) and Payal (166 kg) emerged the ladies’s 48 kg junior and youth girls’s champions respectively. Preetismita Bhoi (150 kg) gained the 44 kg youth girls’s gold.
