Renubala's final victory lift in Clean and Jerk category of 107 weight Photo: Seram Rojesh
Manipuri star women weightlifter, Yumnam Renubala Chanu retains her Common Wealth Gold medal after lifting 197 kg totals in the 19th Commonwealth Games at JN sports complex, New Delhi in the 58 weight category on October 06 2010. This is the first gold medal won by weightlifter from India in either of Men and Women categories in the 19th CWG, Delhi.
Austrian Weightlifter Lee Seen and Weightlifter Smith Zoe from England won silver and bronze medal respectively.
Yumnam Renubala Chanu broke her previous 2006 Common Wealth record, 185kg in total, and this is the highest record made in the history of Common Wealth games. She lifted 107kg in clean and Jerk and 90 kg in snatch. She started her attempt from 85kg in snatch and 104 kg in clean and jerk category. She cleared all her snatch category 85 kg, 87kg and 90 kg in her first attempt. In the clean and jerk category also, she cleared 104kg and 107kg in her first attempt. She could not lift 113 kg in her first attempt and finally declared as the winner of the event. Her nearest opponent Ms Lee Seen from Australia lifted 192 and Ms. Smith Zoe from England lifted 188.
Lee Seen, silver medalist from Austr
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Agricole returns with a big smile |23 October 2010
It was as if nothing had happened to her, but weightlifter Clementina Agricole had been through a lot over the past 12 days.
Community Development, Youth and Sports Minister Vincent Meriton, National Sports Council chief executive Alain Volcère and Hebetty Alcindor of the Seychelles Olympic and Commonwealth Games Association (Socga) welcomed her home with baskets of flowers.
The reason Agricole did not return with the rest of Team Seychelles a week ago is because she was operated on to remove a brain tumour at the G. B. Pant Hospital in Delhi and all expenses – between R700,000 and R1 million – have been paid for by the Commonwealth Games Association.
“I’m happy I’m alive,” Agricole told everyone who had come to welcome her.
“God is great and He saved me. He gave me life instead of a medal. But I’ll be back to win more medals for Seychelles,” she added.
The 22-year-old just missed out on a bronze medal by 1kg in the 58kg weight category, finishing with an Olympic total of 187kg (87kg in snatch and 100kg in clean & jerk) at the Games. She finished fourth out of 13 competitors.
India's Renu Bala Chanu Yumnam won the gold medal with 197kg (90kg in snatch and 107kg in clean & jerk), while Australia's Seen Lee took
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Renu Bala Chanu
Indian weightlifter (born 1986)
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