After 28 Years, Mirabai Chanu Lifts India Back to the Asian Games Medal Table
For nearly three decades Indian weightlifting had been waiting for another Asian Games medal That wait finally ended in Aichi-Nagoya Japan with Mirabai Chanu delivering a landmark silver in the women s kg category The Tokyo Olympic silver medallist lifted a combined kg giving India its first Asian Games weightlifting medal since Karnam Malleswari s silver at the Bangkok Games For Chanu the achievement also filled one of the few gaps in an already decorated career India s -Year Medal DroughtThe journey back to the Asian Games podium has been a difficult one for Indian weightlifting According to a report in The Times of India after Malleswari s silver in India returned from the Busan Games without a medal The Doha Games brought another setback with the International Weightlifting Federation suspending the Indian Weightlifting Federation following multiple positive doping tests India subsequently missed the weightlifting competition at those Games The
