♦ India’s Dhanush Loganathan won the bronze medal an the IWF Junior World Weightlifting Championships 2024 in Leon, Spain on 20 September 2024. In the men’s 55kg event Dhanush lifted a total of 231kg (107 snatch+124kg clean and jerk) for bronze. Vietnam’s K Duong won the gold medal for lifting 253kg (115kg+140kg) and Japan’s Kotaro Tomari, clinched the silver medal for a total of 247kg (108kg+139kg).

♦ Medals at the junior World Weightlifting Championships 2024 are awarded separately in snatch, clean and jerk and total categories. 

♦ Dhanush also clinched a bronze medal in the snatch and finished 13th in the clean and jerk. 

♦ The Indian weightlifting contingent at the Junior World Championships for the under-21 weightlifters includes three men and six women. Payal (women’s 45kg) and Panchami Sonowal (women’s 49kg) also competed today but could not win medals.

♦ In 2023, Dhanush bagged the bronze medal in the men's 49kg weight division at the Weightlifting Youth World Championships in Albania, lifting a total of 200kg (88kg+112kg).

♦ In 2022, Dhanush won his second successive youth gold medal at the National Weightlifting Championships and a youth bronze at the Asian Championships in Tashkent.