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Asian Games
By Our Special Correspondent
China's Li Zhuo who set a new Asian record in the women's 48kg category at the Pukyong University Gymnasium in Busan on Monday. — Photo: V. Sudershan
Though having started career in the 48kg class, Chanu, for sometime now had been regularly competing in the higher 53kg class and it was in that category that she had represented the country in the 2000 Sydney Olympics. But today, as if in a tactical move, she was fielded in the 48 kg class but could sadly make no impression, failing even to complete the competition. Injured while trying to clear 80 kg in her second and third attempts of snatch, the Manipur lifted was forced to retire without even making a single attempt in the clean and jerk. Making it worse was Kunjarani's failure to win a medal of any hue, for the first time through her illustrious career, as the CRPF Inspector was forced to finish in the seventh spot with a total of 172.5 kg, which though was an improvement over her own gold-medal winning effort of 167.5 kg in the recent Commonwealth Games in Manchester. The Indian camp, needless to say, was stunned to say the least by the turn of event and had no satisfactory explanation on the gamble they had taken. Otherwise, it was a high-voltage contest all along before Li Zhuo won over Myanmar's Kay Thi Win on account of her lesser body weight. The two had completed the competition with an identical total of 200 kg. Also in the reckoning at one stage was Indonesia's Rumbewas Raema Lisa and it was her failure to lift her final attempt of 115 kg in the clean and jerk which left Zhuo and Win at the top. Records also took a tumble as the competition hotted up and the day saw the Games mark of 83.5 kg in snatch being overcome at least four times (by Zhuo, Lisa and Win before the Chinese first cleared 90 kg and in the process smashed the Asian record (87.5kg) held by compatriot Liu Xinhua since 2000) before both Zhuo and Win equalled the World record of 90 kg. In the clean and jerk too, there was no shortage for excitement as the Games record of 105 kg was broken thrice by Lisa, Win and Zhuo in that order. Zhuo finally also made an attempt in vain to break her own World record (115 kg set at the World University championship in Izmir) by calling on for a weight of 115.5 kg. The total of 200 kg returned by both Zhuo and win in the end also marked an improvement over the existing Games record of 187.5 kg held by Liu Xiuhua, the winner of the gold at Bangkok in 1998. The results: Women: 48 kg: 1. Li Zhuo (Chn) (90+110=200), 2. Kay Thi Win (Mya) (90+110= 200), 3. Rumbewas Raema Lisa (Ina) (85+110=195). 7th. N.Kunjurani Devi (Ind) (75+97.5=172.5).
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