Leon: In Weightlifting, India’s Dhanush Loganathan won the bronze medal in the men’s 55kg event at the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships 2024 in Leon, Spain. Dhanush Loganathan lifted a total of 231kg (107 snatch+124kg clean and jerk) for bronze. Vietnam’s K Duong won the gold medal for lifting 253kg (115kg+140kg) and Japan’s Kotaro Tomari, clinched the silver medal for a total of 247kg (108kg+139kg).
Medals at the junior World Weightlifting Championships 2024 are awarded separately in snatch, clean and jerk and total categories. Dhanush also clinched a bronze medal in the snatch and finished 13th in the clean and jerk.
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Last year, Dhanush bagged the bronze medal in the men’s 49kg weight division at the Weightlifting Youth World Championships in Albania, lifting a total of 200kg (88kg+112kg). In 2022, Dhanush won his second successive youth gold medal at the National Weightlifting Championships and a youth bronze at the Asian Championships in Tashkent.
The Indian weightlifting contingent at the Junior World Championships for the under-21 weightlifters includes three men and six women.
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