Talha Talib, Pakistan’s ace weightlifter, has ex-pressed gratitude for everyone’s support after win-ning country’s first ever medal at the World Weightlifting Championship on Friday. He won a Bronze at the snatch event in the 67kg category.
Taking to Twitter, Talib said that he hoped to win a gold medal for the country soon too. He asked everyone to keep motivating him this way, saying that he had not responded to messages earlier be-cause his Twitter account was not working in Uz-bekistan.
The weightlifter from Gujranwala made history for Pakistan in Tashkent, Uzbekistan as he lifted 143kg in his first attempt in the snatch event in the 67kg competition.
His following attempts of lifting 146kg and 147kg were unsuccessful, but the lift of 143kg in the first attempt was enough for him to secure a medal for Pakistan.
Talha last year won the Bronze medal in same category at the Asian Championship. The perform-ance earned him a place at Tokyo Olympics, where he finished 5th.
The performance at the Olympics brought him into the limelight and the country’s sports authorities assured him full support for future events.—APP
