Lifter to be next seen in action at Asian meet in May
NEW DELHI: Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu would be heading for an injury-enforced five-month break from weightlifting to work on strengthening her rotator cuff and shoulder. The injuries have been causing pain to wrist and lower back during competitions.
Mirabai’s support staff, headlined by chief national coach Vijay Sharma, has decided to give the champion weightlifter – their biggest medal hope at the Paris Games 2024 – some much-needed recovery time ahead of the Olympic qualification rounds, which started with the recently-held World Championships in the Colombian capital of Bogota.
At the Worlds, Mirabai battled through a dodgy left-wrist to claim the silver medal in the women’s 49kg category, ahead of Tokyo Olympics champion Hou Zhihui from China. It was the Manipuri weightlifter’s second medal at the Worlds after previously securing a historic gold (48kg) at the 2017 edition of the meet in USA’s Anaheim.
Mirabai and coach Sharma have returned to their training base at NIS Patiala after a successful outing in Bogota. It’s been decided in consultation with her support staff that Mirabai won’t compete until May next year when the Asian weightlifting championships will take place in South Korea‘s Jinju-si city from May 3 to 13. During this period, she will remain stationed in NIS to fix her weak shoulder and aching back. To start with, Mirabai won’t be lifting heavy weights for one month – barring her regular gym sessions – and will solely focus on strengthening her shoulder part through exercises suggested by the coach.
Once the shoulder part is taken care of, the focus will then shift to resolving the chronic back pain, which has been troubling her since her gold-winning effort at the Gold Coast CWG in 2018. The pain in her left wrist, which troubled Mirabai during her Worlds campaign.
She had picked up the wrist injury during one of her training sessions in NIS in September after returning from Birmingham with her career’s second CWG gold medal. She had played through injury to lift her first-ever National Games gold in Gujarat but had skipped the Asian Championships in Bahrain in October.
Mirabai’s next big challenge will be the Asian Games in Hangzhou from September 23 to October 8, 2023, for which, the Indian will have to be at her peak form given the presence of weightlifters from Asian powerhouses.
For Paris, Mirabai is targeting to lift 210 kg to be in the gold contention, but it’s her snatch which has been pulling her down. At present, Mirabai’s best in snatch is 88kg and, to close in on her 210kgtarget, Mirabai knows she needs to perfect her snatch and touch the elusive 90kg mark.
NEW DELHI: Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu would be heading for an injury-enforced five-month break from weightlifting to work on strengthening her rotator cuff and shoulder. The injuries have been causing pain to wrist and lower back during competitions.
Mirabai’s support staff, headlined by chief national coach Vijay Sharma, has decided to give the champion weightlifter – their biggest medal hope at the Paris Games 2024 – some much-needed recovery time ahead of the Olympic qualification rounds, which started with the recently-held World Championships in the Colombian capital of Bogota.
At the Worlds, Mirabai battled through a dodgy left-wrist to claim the silver medal in the women’s 49kg category, ahead of Tokyo Olympics champion Hou Zhihui from China. It was the Manipuri weightlifter’s second medal at the Worlds after previously securing a historic gold (48kg) at the 2017 edition of the meet in USA’s Anaheim.
Mirabai and coach Sharma have returned to their training base at NIS Patiala after a successful outing in Bogota. It’s been decided in consultation with her support staff that Mirabai won’t compete until May next year when the Asian weightlifting championships will take place in South Korea‘s Jinju-si city from May 3 to 13. During this period, she will remain stationed in NIS to fix her weak shoulder and aching back. To start with, Mirabai won’t be lifting heavy weights for one month – barring her regular gym sessions – and will solely focus on strengthening her shoulder part through exercises suggested by the coach.
Once the shoulder part is taken care of, the focus will then shift to resolving the chronic back pain, which has been troubling her since her gold-winning effort at the Gold Coast CWG in 2018. The pain in her left wrist, which troubled Mirabai during her Worlds campaign.
She had picked up the wrist injury during one of her training sessions in NIS in September after returning from Birmingham with her career’s second CWG gold medal. She had played through injury to lift her first-ever National Games gold in Gujarat but had skipped the Asian Championships in Bahrain in October.
Mirabai’s next big challenge will be the Asian Games in Hangzhou from September 23 to October 8, 2023, for which, the Indian will have to be at her peak form given the presence of weightlifters from Asian powerhouses.
For Paris, Mirabai is targeting to lift 210 kg to be in the gold contention, but it’s her snatch which has been pulling her down. At present, Mirabai’s best in snatch is 88kg and, to close in on her 210kgtarget, Mirabai knows she needs to perfect her snatch and touch the elusive 90kg mark.
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