New Delhi: 2017 World Championship gold-medallist Mirabai Chanu will lead a 12-member Indian team in the upcoming Asian Weightlifting Championship starting from April 18 in Ningbo, China.
The Asian Championship is one of the qualifying events for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. India had fielded its junior team at the previous qualifiers, the World Championship in November last year, as the senior weightlifters had opted to continue their rehabilitation programme. The China-bound squad has four women and eight men, including Commonwealth Games and Youth Olympics gold medallists Sathish Sivalingam and Jeremy Lalrinnunga respectively. CWG gold medallist R V Rahul has been kept in reserve. (PTI)
