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KIYG 2025: Daughter Of An Autorickshaw Driver, Asmita Dhone Eyes Junior World Weightlifting Medal

By IANS News May 11, 2025 • 17:34 PM View: 702

Khelo India Youth Games: Asmita Dattatray Dhone of Maharashtra broke two youth national weightlifting records on her way to clinching gold medal in the 49kg class in the ongoing Khelo India Youth Games here at the Rajgir Sports Complex. Dhone shattered her own youth national record in both clean and jerk and overall total set at the Commonwealth Championships in Doha, Qatar, five months back. She had won a silver medal at the 2022 Khelo India Youth Games in Indore, Madhya Pradesh.

Asmita first breached the 94kg mark with a 95kg lift in clean and jerk to create a youth national record and then added another two kilograms on the barbell to again breach the national record and take her overall total to 170kg, an improvement of 8 kilograms from her Commonwealth Championships performance. Uttar Pradesh’s Mansi Chamunda (75+88) settled for silver with a youth national snatch record, improving upon the mark set by Panchami Sonowal of Assam in 2022.

Hailing from a humble background, Asmita, who turned 18 this month, was born in Karad town of Satara district. Her father Dattatray Dhone drives an autorickshaw and mother Nirmala is a dairy farmer. Asmita began training under Samrat Pawar in her hometown, which she continues to do even today.

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