Rakhi Halder bags gold at Senior Women's National Weightlifting Championships

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Feb 06, 2020

8:29AM

Rakhi Halder bags gold at Senior Women's National Weightlifting Championships

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In Senior Women's National Weightlifting Championships, Rakhi Halder of Bengal has bagged gold in the 64kg category of the 35th edition of the event in Kolkata.

Though way short of her personal best, Halder lifted 93 kg in snatch and 117 kg in clean and jerk to clinch the gold medal yesterday. She was 10kg ahead of her nearest rival Harjinder Kaur of Chandigarh.

Ranked 19th in the Olympic qualifiers list, Halder had produced a personal best of 218 kg at the Qatar International Cup last year to win the bronze medal.

At the Commonwealth Championship in June 2019, Halder who is also an Indian Railways employee had clinched the gold with a total lift of 214-kg.