Mirabai to lead 12-member squad in upcoming Asian Weightlifting Championship

2017 World Championship gold-medallist Mirabai Chanu will lead a 12-member Indian team in the upcoming Asian Weightlifting Championship starting from April 18 in Ningbo, China.

The Asian Championship is one of the qualifying events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

India had fielded its junior team at the previous qualifiers, the World Championship in November last year, as the senior weightlifters had opted to continue their rehabilitation programme.

The China-bound squad has four women and eight men, including Commonwealth Games and Youth Olympics gold medallists Sathish Sivalingam and Jeremy Lalrinnunga respectively.

CWG gold medallist R V Rahul has been kept in reserve and a call will be taken on his participation in the next five days.

Two-time Commonwealth Games gold-medallist Sanjita Chanu, whose provisional suspension imposed on her for failing a dope test in 2017 was lifted by the International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) in January, will not be competing in the ...