![]() Sheuli in August 2022 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nationality | Indian | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Deulpur, Howrah district, West Bengal, India[1] | 24 November 2001|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Weightlifting | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event | 73 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Achinta Sheuli (born 24 November 2001) is an Indian weightlifter who competes in the 73 kg weight class.[2]
At the 2022 Commonwealth Games, he set a Games record of 313 kg and won gold.[3][4] He lifted 143 kg in snatch (Games Record & equal to his previous personal best) and 170 kg in clean & jerk. [5]
He won the silver medal at the 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships[6] and is a two-time Commonwealth Championships gold medalist.[7]
Sheuli was born in a lower middle class Bengali family at Deulpur, Panchla in Howrah district.[8] He studied in Deulpur High School. He started weightlifting in 2011.[9] His father Pratik Sheuli was a manual laborer who passed away in April 2013. His elder brother Alok was also a weightlifter but dropped out to support his career and the family.[10] [11] Achinta helped his mother and brother in their embroidery work that called for precision, even as he was training for weightlifting that called for power.[12]
Sheuli participated in Youth National Games in Haryana and stood in the third position. He won the Junior National level weightlifting tournament in 2013 for 50kg weight class and got a chance to enter the Army Sports Institute, Pune in 2014.[13][14]