Vikas Thakur completes hat-trick of CWG medal

Birmingham, (UNI): Indian weightlifter Vikas Thakur on Tuesday completed the hat-trick of CWG medals after clinching the silver medal in the men’s 96kg event with a lift of 346 kg.
Thakur’s best lift 155kg in Snatch and 191kg in Clean and Jerk helped him to win his second silver at the CWG.
He has won the silver in 2014 Glasgow and bagged the bronze in Gold Coast in 2018 edition.
Samoa’s Don Opeloge won the gold medal with a Games record total of 381kg (171kg+210kg). Taniela Tuisuva Rainibogi took the bronze with 343kg (115+188kg).
The 28-year-old Indian started successfully registered 149kg in the opening lift in the snatch round followed by 153 kg and 155kg.
In the clean and Jerk, he opened with 187kg and successfully attempted 191kg in the second attempt that guarantee him a silver medal. Thakur went for 198kg in the final attempt but failed to complete the lift.
This was India’s eighth weightlifting medal in this edition of CWG. Sanket Sargar (men’s 55kg silver), Gururaja Poojary (men’s 61kg bronze), Mirabai Chanu (women’s 49kg gold), Bindyarani Devi (women’s 55kg silver), Jeremy Lalrinnunga (men’s 67kg gold), Achinta Sheuli (men’s 73kg gold) and Harjinder Kaur (women’s 71kg bronze) are the other medallists.
India have so far won 12 medals including 5 gold, 4 silver and 3 bronze and sits sixth in the tally.