Mirabai Chanu finished fourth in the women's 49kg weightlifting at the 2024 Paris Olympics, with a total lift of 199kg. She had a best snatch lift of 88kg and a best clean and jerk lift of 111kg.

Weightlifting has been a staple of competition since humans developed the cognitive ability to look at each other's glutes, as the echoes of a softly grunted "pathetic" bounced against cave walls, ...

IMAGE: In the junior men's 79kg, Bharali registered record lifts across snatch, clean and jerk and total to clinch gold with 326kg with record performances in all three. Photograph: Kind courtesy ...