Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu will miss the World Championship and the Commonwealth Senior Championship slated to take place simultaneously between December 7 and 17 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (Other Sports News)
Olympic silver medallist in the 49kg category Saikhom Mirabai Chanu has withdrawn from World Championship and the Commonwealth Senior Championship on the advice of India head coach Vijay Sharma.
Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu will miss the World Championship and the Commonwealth Senior Championship slated to take place simultaneously between December 7 and 17 in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. (Other Sports News)
Chanu, who won a silver medal in the women바카라s 49kg category at the Tokyo Olympics earlier this year and is also a former world champion, withdrew from the two events on the advice of India head coach Vijay Sharma.
바카라Our main aim (for the World Championship and Commonwealth Senior Championship) is that the lifters qualify for next year바카라s Commonwealth Games,바카라 Sharma told PTI. 바카라We had sent Mira바카라s entry but her performance is not very proper right now. We are working on her snatch technique a little.
바카라Her qualification (for CWG) is not an issue because she won the silver in the Olympics and she바카라s also ranked number one at the moment,바카라 he added.
The Commonwealth Senior Championship was earlier scheduled to be held in Singapore from October 20 to 24 but was cancelled due to COVID-19. It will now take place simultaneously and at the same venue alongside the World Championship next month.
Twenty weightlifters from the country, including Youth Olympic gold medallist Jeremy Lalrinnunga, will be competing in the tournaments. Chanu, who holds the world record in the clean and jerk event in the 49kg category after she successfully heaved 119kg in the Asian Championship last year, has struggled to stay at par with her Chinese opponents in the snatch section.
The 27-year-old has, in her own words, struggled while lifting weights in the snatch due to an imbalance that affects her right shoulder and back. Chanu had also consulted Dr. Aaron Horschig, a former weightlifter-turned-physical therapist and strength and conditioning coach in the US, which helped her immensely in winning the silver medal in Tokyo.
Asked if Chanu is planning to go back to the US for training, Sharma said, 바카라There바카라s no need for it right now.바카라 Sharma said that the decision to withdraw from world championships is a strategic one. 바카라She is not facing any problem but it바카라s just that we are thinking strategically which events to take part in and which to miss.
바카라She has been participating in competitions continuously since the past five years. We have prepared but it바카라s not enough for this event. 바카라She would have had to take extra load for this event so I advised her to miss it,바카라 he said.
However, in an interview with PTI last month, Chanu had revealed she still feels pain sometimes while lifting heavy weights. 바카라The issue is sorted, but sometimes, I still get pain in the right shoulder and back because of the imbalance. But there is a lot of improvement from before,바카라 she had said.
바카라Right now there is no plan to go to the US because there is World Championship in December. After this we will maybe plan. I am consulting him (Horschig) online what to do.바카라 Asian Championship gold medallist Jhilli Dalabehera, who earlier competed in the 45kg category, will represent India in Chanu바카라s category at the event.