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 today. The 17-year-old Indian weightlifter lifted a total of 231kg (107 snatch+124kg clean and jerk) for bronze.
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. 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).
The Indian weightlifting contingent at the Junior World Championships for the under-21 weightlifters includes three men and six women. Payal (women’s 45kg) and Panchami Sonowal (women’s 49kg) also competed today but could not win medals.