2018 Commonwealth Games: Know your CWG athlete: Sathish Sivalingam

NEW DELHI: The winner of the inaugural Mahindra Scorpio Times of the India (TOISA) Weightlifter of the Year award in 2015, Sathish Sivalingam claimed gold in the men’s 77kg event at the Commonwealth Senior

Weightlifting

Championships held in Australia, with a total effort of 320 kg (148kg in snatch, 172 kg in clean & jerk). With this, he sealed passage to the 2018

Commonwealth Games

to be held at

Gold Coast

City, in the southeast of the Australian state of Queensland from April 4-15.


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The Vellore-born weightlifter leads the eight-member men’s weightlifting team. Having won gold in the 2014 Glasgow Commonwealth Games - with a new

CWG

snatch record of 149 kg - Sathish will be eyeing an encore at this year’s edition.

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He qualified for the 2016 Rio Olympics but finished 11th despite a good showing that saw him lift the best weight of 329 kg (148 kg snatch and 181 kg clean and jerk). In 2017, Sathish won gold at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships. He had won the same event in 2013 as well.









Sathish started training under his father, Sivalingam - a former national-level weightlifter - at the age of 13 and was later enrolled in the Atlas Weightlifting Training Centre next to his home, where he underwent rigorous training.

Indian men’s weightlifting team for 2018 CWG:

Gururaja (56 kg), Muthupandi Raja (62 kg), Deepak Lather (69 kg), Sathish Sivalingam (77 kg), Ragala Venkat Rahul (85 kg), Vikas Thakur (94 kg), Pardeep Singh (105 kg), Gurdeep Singh (105 kg)