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Asian Games 2023, Weightlifting Preview: Medal hopes rest on Mirabai’s shoulders

Smiling assassin: Mirabai Chanu returned to competitive action in May after undergoing a five-month rehabilitation programme following hip surgery last December.

Asian Games 2023, India in Weightlifting full schedule: Dates, squad, men’s and women’s teams

Mirabai Chanu in action during the 36th National Games.

India Weightlifting squad for Asian Games 2023: Squad, team news, Indian performance before Hangzhou 2022

Chanu Saikhom Mirabai in action during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.

Mirabai Chanu to participate only in weigh-in at the World Championships

Mirabai Chanu in action during Tokyo 2020.

Ajith, Achinta focussed on World Championships after missing Asian Games selection

File Photo: Achinta Sheuli competes during the Men’s Weightlifting 73kg Final at the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games.

Kapil, Anjana win bronze in Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships

Kapil Sonowal strikes a pose after winning the bronze medal in the Asian Youth and Junior Weightlifting Championships.

Olympic medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu appeals to PM Modi to bring end to Manipur conflict

FILE PHOTO: Olympic medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu.

Meet Arshia Goswami: The eight-year-old who lifts weights for fun

Arshia Goswami performing a snatch lift at her father Avnish’s gym in Sector-25, Panchkula, Haryana.

Mirabai Chanu: The thought of the failed attempt in Rio did cross my mind in Tokyo

Mirabai Chanu won India's first-ever weightlifting silver medal at the Olympics, after lifting a total of 202 kg in the women's 49 kg event at the Tokyo 2020 Games.

Watch: Female Iraqi Kurdish bodybuilder breaking down barriers

As a young girl, Shylan would help her mother knead bread until one day she realised the work was a way to build up muscles -- and she liked it. Now 46 and herself a mother to three adult children, Kamal sees her passion for bodybuilding as a matter of gender equality in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region.

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