CWG 2026: Harjinder Kaur wins silver in women’s 69kg weightlifting

India’s weightlifters continue to ring in the medals in Glasgow as Harjinder Kaur won silver in women’s 69kg to make it seven from the sport for India at the 2026 Commonwealth Games (Source: Photo by PTI)

Harjinder lifted 101kg in snatch and then 126kg in clean and jerk, both of which were personal bests for her (Source: Photo by PTI)

Canadian Charlotte Simoneau won gold with a total lift of 240kg at present while Nya Phebe Hayman of Australia won bronze after heaving a total of 218kg (Source: Photo by PTI)

Harjinder was placed second at the end of the snatch and maintained her position through the clean and jerk to win a medal at the Commonwealth Games for the second consecutive time, improving on the bronze she won at Birmingham 2022 (Source: Photo by PTI)

Harjinder’s journey to becoming a weightlifter started around the time that the strength she showed in tug-of-war got noticed. Her strong arms, she had told The Indian Express in 2022 before she won her first CWG medal, were developed by cutting fodder (Source: Photo by PTI)

It was hard labour on what is known as the toka, a chaff cutting machine which requires the operator to turn a giant wheel with blades (Source: Photo by PTI)

On Tuesday, she broke the Games record in the snatch twice, first clearing 99kg before improving it to 101kg with a confident final attempt (Source: Photo by PTI)

Harjinder then continued her record-breaking spree in the clean and jerk, successfully lifting 123kg before raising the bar to 126kg, taking her overall total to 227kg (Source: Photo by PTI)