Achinta Sheuli
Indian weightlifter (born 2001)
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Achinta Sheuli (born 24 November 2001) is an Indian weightlifter who competes in the 73 kg weight class.[2]
Sheuli in August 2022 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Indian |
| Born | 24 November 2001 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Weightlifting |
Event | 73 kg |
Medal record | |
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 died 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]
