GUWAHATI, Dec 28: Uttar Pradesh weightlifters dominated the penultimate day of the four-day 50th Men and 26th Women Junior National Weightlifting Championship capturing 8 gold medals one silver and a bronze.
At the Tarun Ram Phookan Indoor Stadium here today, in the junior women category Vandana Gupta (63kg group) and Sushila Panwar (69kg group) won gold medals while in the junior men section Ashutosh Kumar Singh (85kg group) lifted a gold medal and a silver. Their team mate Shivam Saini won a bronze medals in junior men 85kg group.
For Assam, Swapnapriya Baruah won two bronze medals and a silver in the junior women 69kg group.
Today�s results: (Jr women, 63kg group) Vandana Gupta of Uttar Pradesh (gold in snatch with 87kg, gold in jerk with 104kg, overall gold with 191kg). Rakhi Holder of West Bengal (silver in snatch with 79kg, silver in jerk with 102kg, overall silver with 181kg). Swarupa Purty of Orissa (bronze in snatch with 78kg, bronze in jerk with 99kg, overall bronze with 177kg). (Jr women, 69kg group) Sushila Panwar of Uttar Pradesh (gold in snatch with 82kg, gold in jerk with 99kg, overall gold with 181kg). Swapna Priya Baruah of Assam (silver in snatch with 76kg, bronze in jerk with 94kg, overall silver with 170kg). Pooja of Delhi (silver in jerk with 97kg, overall bronze with 164kg). Simranpreet Kaur of Punjab won silver medal in snatch in that category with 77kg. (Jr men, 85kg group) Ashotosh Singh of Uttar Pradesh (silver in snatch with 122kg, gold in jerk with 155kg, overall gold with 277kg). Ankit of Haryana (bronze in snatch with 121kg, silver in jerk with 150kg, overal silver with 271kg). Shivam Saini of Uttar Pradesh (bronze in jerk with 150kg, overall bronze with 267kg). Ajay Shirke gold in snatch with 123kg.
