Manipur’s Mirabai Chanu targets a lift of above 90kg in snatch in Paris Olympics

Guwahati: With less than a month left for the Paris Olympics, Manipur’s daughter and Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu is targeting a lift of above 90 kg in the snatch category.

Paris Olympics starts on July 26 and will conclude on 11 August.

Chanu has returned to action following a six-month injury lay-off.

The ace weightlifter suffered hip tendonitis and finished fourth in the 49kg women’s category in the last Asian Games and recently returned to competition with a lift of 184 kgs (81kg snatch and 103kg clean and jerk) at the Phuket World Cup in April 2024.

Chanu is well aware that anything less than a 200kg total lift (snatch clean and jerk) won’t be enough to win a medal in Paris and the Manipuri girl is giving her all towards achieving the feat.

“The injury is fine, I have completely recovered from that but I am going slow in training. In training now I am lifting 80-85 per cent in repetitions, I am not lifting 100 per cent till the Olympics,” said Chanu.

She is hopeful that there will be no injury concerns during the Paris Olympics and the whole team is working towards that.