The 45-year-old Jayant competing in 62kg weight category, lifted a total of 192kg.
New Delhi: India Army's Lt Colonel Sudhakar Jayant has won gold medal at the IWF World Masters weightlifting championships, held in Turin, Italy.
The 45-year-old Jayant competing in 62kg weight category, lifted a total of 192kg. His lift of 87kg in snatch was a Games record. The lift came in his secod attempt.
In clean and jerk, he lifted 105kg. Finland's Jari Huuskonen (81+95) won silver while Jan-Olof kesson of Sweden was third (76+92).
The Armyman, now postd in Jabalpur, had also won gold last year when the championship was held in Ukraine.
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