Achinta Sheuli (born 24 November 2001) is an Indian

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who competes in the 73 kg weight class. At the

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, he set a Games record of 313 kg and won gold. He lifted 143 kg in snatch (Games Record & equal to his previous personal best) and 170 kg in clean & jerk. He won the silver medal at the 2021 Junior World Weightlifting Championships and is a two-time Commonwealth Championships gold medalist.

Early life

Sheuli was born in a lower middle class Bengali family at Deulpur,

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. He studied in Deulpur High School. He started weightlifting in 2011. 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. 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. Sheuli participated in Youth National Games in

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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,

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in 2014.

Awards

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'' TOISA Weightlifter of the Year: 2021

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* Living people 2001 births Indian male weightlifters Weightlifters from West Bengal People from Howrah district 21st-century Indian people Weightlifters at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists for India Medallists at the 2022 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games gold medallists in weightlifting {{India-weightlifting-bio-stub