Following is India's schedule on Wednesday, Day 12 of competition at the Paris Olympics.
Chinese lifter Jiang Huihua obliterated Tokyo Olympic silver medallist Mirabai Chanu's clean and jerk world record by lifting 120kg at the World Championships in Riyadh on Tuesday.
Chanu, who has a personal best of 88kg in snatch and 119kg in clean and jerk, is no stranger to injuries and has struggled with a persistent back problem.
This Olympic cycle has been marred by injuries for Chanu, who turned 30 just a day after the competition in Paris.
Mirabai Chanu's dream of clinching a second successive Olympic medal was dashed
'We know that Mira has to go well beyond the 200kg mark. 202kg will not cut it this time but somewhere around 205-206kg should do it. But we are prepared for the challenge.'
Mirabai Chanu, who has been recuperating from hip tendonitis she suffered during the Asian Games in September last year, has all but qualified for the Paris Olympics.
Injuries are mentally challenging, delighted to be back in competition: Mirabai Chanu
Chanu had confessed that the 90kg lift had become somewhat of a mental block last year, ahead of the CWG.
PM Modi, Olympian Abhinav Bindra lead country in congratulating Mirabai Chanu on winning Olympic silver on Saturday.
Gyaneshwari Yadav clinched the silver medal and compatriot V Rithika finished third to give India a double podium finish in the women's 49kg category at the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships in Heraklion, Greece, on Monday night.
Mirabai Chanu's Asian Championship campaign did not go as per plan as she faltered in snatch and chose not to make her last two clean and jerk attempts to finish sixth.
Chanu has consistently improved in the section to stay in contention for medals at top events.
Mirabai Chanu's medal hopes swell after North Korea's withdrawal from Olympics
After the high of the Tokyo Games, India's Olympic silver medallist weightlifter Mirabai Chanu has turned her focus on winning a second world championship title and is ironing out the chinks in her armour ahead of the event.
The gold went to China's Hou Zhihui with an effort of 210kg (94kg+116kg), who created Olympic records in all three categories (snatch, clean and jerk and Total).
Mirabai will desperately hope for a different script this time round, one that involves a podium.
Mirabai Chanu will enter Birmingham, as title favourite.
If only the shooters had found their targets, the story would have been so different! sighs Raj Kishore Mishra.
'I am very happy to win the first medal for India at these Games. I don't just belong to Manipur, I belong to the whole country'
The latest qualifying rankings feature three Chinese weightlifters in the top five.
Former champion Mirabai Chanu bettered her own national record but missed out on a podium, finishing a creditable fourth, in the women's 49kg event at the Weightlifting World Championships.
This time, India may win as many as 17 medals at the Games.
Mirabai made a strong comeback from a lower back injury that had kept her out of action for nearly nine months post the 2018 Commonwealth Games.
All the gold medallists from Saturday's action at the Tokyo Olympics.
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