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CWG 2026: Check India’s latest medal tally, full list of gold, silver and bronze winners

India secured eighth place in the Commonwealth Games 2026 medal standings after Day 5. Weightlifting continued to be India's strongest discipline, contributing multiple medals to the tally. Mirabai Chanu achieved a historic gold, setting new Commonwealth Games records. Para-athlete Sharmila Dhankar also won gold in the women's shot put F57…

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'Grit, grip, and glory': Sports Minister Mansukh Mandaviya congratulates Bindyarani on CWG 2026 bronze

Devi after she clinched the bronze medal in the women's 58kg event at the 2026 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow on Monday, hailing her contribution to India's growing medal tally at the Games.

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CWG 2026 Medal Tally: Check latest Top 10 standings as India climbs to eighth spot, moves ahead of New Zealand

India secured six medals on Day 5, boosting their overall tally to ten. Sharmila Dhankar won a historic gold medal in para-athletics for the nation. Sarvesh Kushare and Gyaneshwari Yadav claimed silver medals in their respective events. Bindyarani Devi and Shilpa K. Shyla added bronze medals to India's growing count.…

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Sharmila Dhankar's historic gold leads India's ten-medal haul at CWG 2026

India achieved its best Commonwealth Games 2026 performance on Day 5. Sharmila Dhankar won historic gold in women's shot put F57. Several athletes secured silver and bronze medals across various disciplines. Weightlifting contributed three more medals, boosting the overall tally to six. India's medal count reached ten, including two gold,…

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CWG 2026: Weightlifter Bindyarani Devi clinches Bronze in Glasgow, takes India's medal tally to 6

Bindyarani Devi won bronze in the women's 58kg weightlifting event. She finished behind Nigeria's Rafiatu Lawal and Canada's Ann Sophie Taschereau. Bindyarani Devi's total lift was 199kg, securing her second Commonwealth Games medal. This bronze medal contributes to India's overall tally of six medals at Glasgow 2026. India's medal count…

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Mirabai Chanu to lead five-member India team in World Weightlifting Championships 2023

Tokyo 2020 Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu will spearhead a five-member Indian contingent at the World Weightlifting Championships 2023 in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Read further on Dynamite News:

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World Weightlifting Championship: Mirabai Chanu to spearhead Indian campaign in Riyadh from September 4

Two-time medallist Mirabai Chanu will once again spearhead the Indian challenge in the World Weightlifting Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in September. Apart from Chanu (49kg), Commonwealth Games medallists Bindyarani Devi (55kg) and Achinta Sheuli (73kg), Shubham Todkar (61kg) and Narayana Ajith (73kg) will also compete in the world event.

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Mirabai Chanu to spearhead Indian campaign in World Weightlifting Championships

GREATER NOIDA: Two-time medallist Mirabai Chanu will once again spearhead the Indian challenge in the World Weightlifting Championships in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, in September.

The Times of India

With big names missing, chance for young weightlifters to impress

While the Asian Games remain the big-ticket event of the year for the elite athletes, other Indian weightlifters will get a chance to impress at home during the Commonwealth Senior, Junior and Youth Championships (July 12-16) and the Asian Junior & Youth Championships (July 28-August 5), both slated to be…

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MOC approves Mirabai Chanu, Bindyarani Devi's proposal to train in USA

Ministry of Youth Affairs and Sports (MYAS) Mission Olympic Cell (MOC) in the recent meeting approved the foreign training camp for Target Olympic Podium Scheme (TOPS) athletes Mirabai Chanu and Bindyarani Devi's proposal to train in St. Louis, USA, according to an official statement released on Tuesday. Read further on…

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Haven't been able to speak to my family in two days: Asian Championship silver medallist Manipur's Bindyarani Devi

NEW DELHI: In faraway Korea, Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi on Saturday wondered if the news of her silver medal-winning effort at the Asian Championship had reached her parents, in violence-hit Manipur.

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India's Bindyarani Devi wins silver at Asian Championships

Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi won the silver medal in the women’s 55kg event at the Asian Championships here on May 6.

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CWG 2022: Bindyarani Devi finds her identity with fine silver show

When Bindyarani Devi was first selected for the national camp in 2019, she had landed in NIS Patiala without a pair of weightlifting shoes for her workout sessions. Mira di, as she fondly calls her idol Mirabai Chanu, came forward and gifted her training shoes to Bindyarani to ensure that…

The Times of India

CWG 2022: IOA lauds Mirabai Chanu's gold-winning feat, congratulates others

BIRMINGHAM: The Indian Olympic Association (IOA) lauded record-breaking weightlifter Mirabai Chanu on winning the country's first gold medal at the ongoing Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

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CWG 2022: Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi wins silver medal in Women's 55kg final

Indian weightlifter Bindyarani Devi won a silver medal with a combined lift of 202kg in the Women's 55kg final at the ongoing Commonwealth Games 2022 in Birmingham on Saturday. Read more on Dynamite News:

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President congratulates weightlifter Bindyarani Devi for winning silver at CWG

NEW DELHI: President Droupadi Murmu on Sunday congratulated weightlifter Bindyarani Devi for winning a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and said her performance demonstrated the zeal to raise the bar.

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PM Narendra Modi congratulates Bindyarani Devi for winning silver medal at Commonwealth Games

NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday congratulated Bindyarani Devi for winning a silver medal at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, and said this accomplishment has made every Indian very happy.

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CWG 2022: Mirabai Chanu bosses field to claim gold, as weightlifters win four medals for India on Day 2

BIRMINGHAM: A smiling Mirabai Chanu made her iconic presence felt with a record-smashing gold while two silver medals from Sanket Sargar and Bindyarani Devi, along with a bronze won by Gururaja Poojary, made day two of competition at the Commonwealth Games (CWG) a sparkling one for India and the country's…

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Medal rush continues as Bindyarani Devi wins silver

Earlier, Mirabai Chanu had provided India its first gold

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CWG: A happy hunting ground for Indian weightlifters

NEW DELHI: A new rule prevented India from rejigging the weight categories of its lifters for maximum advantage but country's 15-strong contingent, headlined by Mirabai Chanu, is still expected to return with a bagful of medals from the Birmingham Commonwealth Games.

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Bindyarani sets two new records

Commonwealth championships silver medallist Bindyarani Devi improved upon her National records in cl

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Mirabai Chanu’s entry in 55 kg rejected for Commonwealth Games, will compete in 49 kg

NEW DELHI: Tokyo Olympics silver medallist Mirabai Chanu won’t compete in the 55kg category at the Commonwealth Games in Birmingham, as originally planned by the Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) to maximise the country’s medal chances at the multi-sport event. The champion Manipuri lifter will return to her original weight division…

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