Achinta Sheuli

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Achinta Sheuli
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Sheuli in August 2022
Personal information
Nationality Indian
Born (2001-11-24) 24 November 2001 (age 21)
Deulpur, Howrah district, West Bengal, India [1]
Sport
Sport Weightlifting
Event(s)73 kg
Medal record
Men's weightlifting
Representing Flag of India.svg  India
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2022 Birmingham 73 kg
Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2019 Apia 73 kg
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Tashkent 73 kg
Junior World Weightlifting Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Tashkent 73 kg

Achinta Sheuli (born 24 November 2001) is an Indian weightlifter who competes in the 73 kg weight class. [2]

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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

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References

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  2. ↑ "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.
  3. ↑ "Birmingham 2022 Results". results.birmingham2022.com. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  4. ↑ Selvaraj, Jonathan (1 August 2022). "Achinta Sheuli wins gold in 73kg weightlifting in Commonwealth Games 2022". Sportstar. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  5. ↑ "CWG 2022: Achinta Sheuli wins gold in men's 73kg weightlifting". ESPN.in. 31 July 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  6. ↑ Sarangi, Y. B. (26 May 2021). "Achinta Sheuli wins silver at World Junior Weightlifting Championships". Sportstar. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  7. ↑ "Achinta Sheuli stitches a new life on the weightlifting platform". The Indian Express. 6 September 2019. Retrieved 29 July 2022.
  8. ↑ "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.
  9. ↑ "Zari needle to barbell, how CWG champ Achinta Sheuli lifted himself up". ESPN.in. August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  10. ↑ "Meet Achinta Sheuli, Kolkata weightlifter who smashed CWG record to win GOLD". Zee News. Retrieved 1 August 2022.
  11. ↑ "Zari needle to barbell, how CWG champ Achinta Sheuli lifted himself up". ESPN.in. August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  12. ↑ "Zari needle to barbell, how CWG champ Achinta Sheuli lifted himself up". ESPN.in. August 2022. Retrieved 2 August 2022.
  13. ↑ 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.
  14. ↑ "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.
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