Achinta Sheuli
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| Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 24 November 2001 Deulpur, Howrah district, West Bengal, India[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event | 73 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Achinta Sheuli (born 24 November 2001) is an Indian weightlifter who competes in the 73 kg weight class.[2]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he set a Games record of 313 kg and won gold.[3][4] He lifted 143 kg in snatch (Games Record & equal to his previous personal best) and 170 kg in clean & jerk. [5]
He won the silver medal at the 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships[6] and is a two-time Commonwealth Championships gold medalist.[7]
Early life
Sheuli was born in a lower middle class Bengali family at Deulpur, Panchla in Howrah district.[8] He studied in Deulpur High School. He started weightlifting in 2011.[9] His father Pratik Sheuli was a manual laborer who passed away in April 2013. His elder brother Alok was also a weightlifter but dropped out to support his career and the family.[10] [11] Achinta helped his mother and brother in their embroidery work that called for precision, even as he was training for weightlifting that called for power.[12]
Sheuli participated in Youth National Games in Haryana and stood in the third position. He won the Junior National level weightlifting tournament in 2013 for 50kg weight class and got a chance to enter the Army Sports Institute, Pune in 2014.[13][14]
Awards
- The Times of India TOISA Weightlifter of the Year: 2021[15]
References
- ^ Banerjee, Sayak (4 February 2020). "Lifter Achinta mulls state switch". The Telegraph. India. Retrieved 27 September 2022.
- ^ "Who is Achinta Sheuli? Weightlifter who won India's third gold medal at Commonwealth Games 2022". Jagranjosh.com. 1 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Birmingham 2022 Results". results.birmingham2022.com. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ Selvaraj, Jonathan (1 August 2022). "Achinta Sheuli wins gold in 73kg weightlifting in Commonwealth Games 2022". Sportstar. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "CWG 2022: Achinta Sheuli wins gold in men's 73kg weightlifting". ESPN.in. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ Sarangi, Y. B. (26 May 2021). "Achinta Sheuli wins silver at World Junior Weightlifting Championships". Sportstar. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "Achinta Sheuli stitches a new life on the weightlifting platform". The Indian Express. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
- ^ "The family was running on 500 rupees, earned by my mother! Achinta said after winning the gold". The Hindustan Gazette. 1 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Zari needle to barbell, how CWG champ Achinta Sheuli lifted himself up". ESPN.in. August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "Meet Achinta Sheuli, Kolkata weightlifter who smashed CWG record to win GOLD". Zee News. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Zari needle to barbell, how CWG champ Achinta Sheuli lifted himself up". ESPN.in. August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ "Zari needle to barbell, how CWG champ Achinta Sheuli lifted himself up". ESPN.in. August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
- ^ সরকার, সন্দীপ (1 August 2022). "Exclusive: বাবার শেষকৃত্য করেছিলেন ধার করে, ধান বয়ে মিলত ঘুগনি-ডিম, হাওড়ার অচিন্ত্যর রূপকথা". bengali.abplive.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "Underweight once, Achinta Sheuli does heavy lifting to extend India's golden run at Commonwealth Games weightlifting". The Indian Express. 1 August 2022. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
- ^ "TOISA 2021: Neeraj Chopra headlines the list of winners". timesofindia.indiatimes.com. New Delhi: The Times of India. 14 October 2021. Archived from the original on 26 October 2022. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
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