Vikas Thakur is set to compete in the Men’s 96 kg class at the Commonwealth Games 2022.
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Vikas Thakur is set to compete in the Men’s 96 kg class at the Commonwealth Games 2022. The 28-year-old will be eyeing his third medal at Birmingham 2022. The Ludhiana-born clinched a Silver medal in the men’s 85 kg class at Glasgow 2014. With overall 333kg, (150kg + 183kg), he stood second to New Zealand’s Richard Patterson (335 kg) in the final. Vikas added another medal to his CWG tally, winning Bronze in the 94 kg weight class.
Vikas is a 7-time Nationals champion and has won multiple medals in Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships. Vikas’s family has been very supportive in his sports career. In fact, it was his father who encouraged him to make a career in sports. At the age of 9, he took up Weightlifting and has never looked back since then.
The live coverage of the Commonwealth Games 2022 will be available on different networks across the world. In the Indian subcontinent, it will be telecast LIVE from Birmingham on Sony TEN 1, Sony TEN 2, Sony TEN 3, Sony SIX, and Sony TEN 4. The live streaming will be available on the Sony LIV app or website. Elsewhere, BBC will telecast LIVE in the United Kingdom, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Canada, Seven Network in Australia, Sky NZ in New Zealand, Mediacorp in Singapore, S4C in Wales, and ESPN in the USA.
Vikas will fight for a top finish again at the Commonwealth Games. He will be seen in action in the Men’s 96 kg weight category at 6:30 pm on August 2.
India has won a total number of 6 medals in Commonwealth Games 2022 so far, with all the medals coming from Weightlifting. Mirabai Chanu (Women’s 49 kg), Jeremy Lalrinnunga (Men’s 67 kg), Achinta Sheuli (Men’s 73 kg) are the Gold medallists, while Sanket Sargar (Men’s 55 kg), Bindyarani Devi (Women’s 55 kg) are the Silver medal winners and Gururaja Poojary (Men’s 61 kg) is the only Bronze medallist for India.
