Tokyo Olympics: Indian Weightlifter Mirabai Chanu enters with 210kg entry weight; highest among all competitors
At the Tokyo Olympics, Indian weightlifting sensation Mirabai Chanu will be entering the 49kg women’s category with an entry weight of 210kg. This will be the highest weight among all participants in her event, which takes place on 24th July at !0 am.
Chanu recently won the 2020 Asian Championships in Tashkent lifting a total weight of 205kgs while creating a world record in the clean and jerk, lifting 119kg. She won a gold medal at the 2017 World Championships and a Gold at the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
Chanu will be going into her event with the highest weigh entry, as her main rival Hou Zhihui of China has entered a slightly lesser weight of 205kg. Other competitors in her category to watch out for are Aisah Windy Cantika of Indonesia with an entry weight of 203kg, and American weightlifter Delacruz Jourdan Elizabeth with a total weight of 200kg.
Mirabai Chanu and her coaches may have a strategy in order to remain in medal contention at the Tokyo Olympics. Her current entry weight puts her in gold medal contention at the Tokyo Olympics. The entry totals for the events are placed only a few days prior to the actual competition, and on the day of the event one cannot enter with an entry total of less than 20kg than the entry weight placed previously.
At the Asian Championships, Chanu has entered the same weight total of 210kg. The gold and silver medal winners however at that time had also entered the same weight, with Hou Zhihui taking home the gold with a lift of 213kg, creating a world record. Chanu took home bronze, with a world record if 119kg in the clean and jerk category.
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