ANAHEIM:India won its first weightlifting World Championships gold medal since 1995 when Mirabai Chanu defeated the Thai favourite Thunya Sukcharoen in the women’s 48kg on Wednesday.
Vietnam had a one-two finish in the men’s 56kg, and Francisco Mosquera Valencia of Colombia became the first non-Asian winner at 62kg since 2003. Mirabai had failed to register a total at the Rio Olympics because of nerves and while she said she was also nervous at Anaheim Convention Centre she made three clear clean and jerk lifts for a total of 194kg to deny Sukcharoen, who failed with her last attempt, by one kilogram.
India’s last World Championships winner was Karnam Malleswari, who in 2000 became the country’s first female Olympic medallist in any sport.
In the 56kg weight class Vietnam’s Thach Kim, who had finished on the podium behind the North Korean Om Yun-chol in the past three World Championships, lifted 279kg to beat compatriot Tran Le Quoc and Thailand’s Witoon Mingmoon.
Mosquera Valencia, a silver medallist in 2015, made up a six kilogram deficit in the snatch to win the 62kg with a total of 300kg from Japan’s Yoichi Itokazu and Georgia’s Shota Mishvelidze. North Korea did not enter this year, while nine other leading nations are banned for doping offences. (AGENCIES)
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Priyanka’s ‘A Kid Like Jake’ selected for Sundance Film Fest
LOS ANGELES, Nov 30:
Priyanka Chopra is excited that her upcoming film “A Kid Like Jake” has been selected for the Sundance Film Festival.
Directed by Silas Howard, the movie will be the 35-year- old actor’s second Hollywood outing, post “Baywatch”.
Priyanka took to Twitter to announce the news.
“When I read the script of #AKidLikeJake, I knew immediately that this was a story I had to be a part of… A story that needed to be told and seen…
“And now it’s been selected for @sundancefest! I can’t wait for you all to see this amazing lil film we’ve made,” she wrote.
The “Quantico” star also tagged her castmates and Howard in the tweet.
Jim Parsons, Claire Danes and Octavia Spencer are in key roles.
“Thank you for being such an incredible team to work with,” she added.
Howard also tweeted, saying, “So excited ‘A Kid Like Jake’ will be in this powerful line-up! Congratulations to the whole team.”
Priyanka portrays Amal, a friend of Jake’s parents – played by Danes and Parsons, who is a newly-single mom trying to navigate the school system, along with her dating life. (AGENCIES)
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