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Pratima Kumari
Pratima Kumari is an Indian weightlifter. Twenty-eight-year-old Pratima was a double gold medallist at the Manchester Commonwealth Games in 2002. She was subsequently suspended by International Weightlifting Federation (IWF) from international competition for a period of two years on doping charges.
Priteesmita Bhoi
Preetismita Bhoi (born 14 November 2008) is an Indian weightlifter. Bhoi created a Youth World Record in Clean & Jerk with a lift of 92 kg at the 2025 Asian Youth Games in the 44 kg category, earning a gold medal.
Punam Yadav
Punam Yadav (born 9 July 1995) is an Indian weightlifter who won Bronze medal in the women's 63 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, where the gold medal was won by Olauwatoyin Adesanmi of Nigeria. She also won a gold medal at the 2018 Commonwealth Games held in Gold Coast, Australia.
Purnima Pandey
Purnima Pandey (born 16 October 1997) is an Indian weightlifter. Purnima Pandey created eight national records on the way to a gold in the women's +87 kg category at the 2021 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships at Tashkent. In July 2022 she placed sixth in the women's +87 kg weightlifting event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games.
Ravi Kumar Katulu
Ravi Kumar Katulu (born 24 April 1988) is an Indian former weightlifter. At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won a gold medal in the men's 69 kg event. Ravi represented India in the men's 69 kg event at the 2012 London Olympics.
Rustam Sarang
Rustam Sarang (born 12 December 1988) is an Indian weightlifter who placed seventh in the Men's 62 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow.
Sairaj Pardeshi
Sairaj Pardeshi (born 2007) is an Indian weightlifter who competes in the men's 88 kg category. He is best known for winning the gold medal at the 2025 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in the junior division.
Sanamacha Chanu
Sanamacha Thingbaijam Chanu (born 1 February 1975) is an Indian weightlifter who competed in the women's 53 kg weight class at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She had also won three golds at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in Manchester and was a part of the core team for the 2010 Commonwealth Games at New Delhi, during the trials for which, she was tested positive for methylhexanamine; a stimulant commonly used as a nasal decongestant.
Sandeep Kumar
Sandeep Kumar (born 27 February 1975) is an Indian weightlifter. He competed in the men's featherweight event at the 1996 Summer Olympics. He has won bronze medal at Commonwealth Games 1998 held at Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia).
Sanket Sargar
Sanket Mahadev Sargar (born 16 October 2000) is an Indian weightlifter who holds the national and Commonwealth record of 256 kg in the men's 55 kg weight class. He won the silver medal at the 2022 Commonwealth Games in Birmingham with a total lift of 248 kg.
Santoshi Matsa
Santoshi Matsa (born 10 March 1994) is an Indian weightlifter who won the silver medal in the women's 53 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow. Matsa had originally finished in bronze medal position, but the gold medal winner Chika Amalaha of Nigeria failed a drug test, elevating Matsa to silver medal position. Santoshi lifted a total of 188 kg — 83 kg in snatch and 105 in clean and jerk.
Saraswati Rout
Saraswati Rout is an Indian weightlifter from Odisha. She won the bronze medal at the 2017 Gold Coast Championships.
Satheesha Rai
Satheesha Rai (born 27 August 1971) is an Indian weightlifter and Olympian from Mangalore, Karnataka. He is also a recipient of the Arjuna Award given in 1999. He won a gold medal and two silver medals in the 1998 Commonwealth Games.
Sathish Sivalingam
Sathish Sivalingam (born 23 June 1992) is an Indian weightlifter who won gold medals in the men's 77 kg weight class at both the 2014 and the 2018 Commonwealth Games. He is supported by the GoSports Foundation through the Rahul Dravid athlete mentorship programme.
Shailaja Pujari
Shailaja Pujari (born 12 June 1982) is a former Indian weightlifter. Pujari competed at the 2002 Commonwealth Games where she won gold medals in the 75 kg snatch, 75 kg clean and jerk and 75 kg total events. She was removed from India's 2006 Commonwealth Games team after testing positive for steroids and was given a lifetime ban from competing in January 2010 after testing positive for a banned substance in September 2009.
Simple Kaur
Simple Kaur Bhumrah (born 20 March 1986) is an Indian weightlifter. She won the silver medal in the Women's +75 kg category at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. She has acted in Oye Jassie.
Sneha Soren
Sneha Soren (born 2001) is a woman weightlifter from India. She won her first international medal at the 2017 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships held at Gold Coast, Australia, and she received a bronze medal at the 2023 National Games. Soren received the Ekalavya Award from the Government of Odisha.
Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga
Sudhir Kumar Chitradurga Padma Raju (born 13 April 1979) is an Indian weightlifter. He won the bronze medal in the Men's 69 kg category at the 2006 Commonwealth Games, with a combined lift of 287 kilograms.
Sukhen Dey
Sukhen Dey (born 28 March 1989) is an Indian weightlifter. He won Gold medal in the men's 56 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in Glasgow, Scotland and previously won a silver medal at the 2010 Commonwealth Games at Delhi. Dey left behind Malaysia's Mohd Pisol Zulheimi with the Silver medal and Ganesh Mali with Bronze medal.
Sunaina Anand
Sunaina Anand (20 April 1980) is an Indian weightlifter. Sunaina won three bronze medals at the 2002 Commonwealth Games in the 58 kg snatch, 58 kg clean and jerk and 58 kg total events.
Swati Singh
Swati Singh (born 2 October 1987) is an Indian weightlifter who won the bronze medal in the women's 53 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow. Singh had originally finished fourth but the gold medal winner Chika Amalaha of Nigeria failed a drug test, elevating Singh to bronze medal position. In 2019 she tested positive for Morphine and was banned for two years by the International Weightlifting Federation.
Tara Singh
Tara Singh (born 1 June 1955) is an Indian weightlifter. He was the first Indian to cross 200 kg in the clean and jerk event winning the bronze medal while representing India at the 1982 Asian Games at New Delhi. He was conferred with the Arjuna Award in 1982 by the Government of India.
Thandava Murthy Muthu
Thandava Murthy Muthu (born 21 January 1975) is an Indian male weightlifter, competing in the 56 kg category and representing India at international competitions. He participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics in the 56 kg event. He competed at world championships, most recently at the 2001 World Weightlifting Championships.
Valli Asari Mookan
Valli Asari Mookan (born 1931) is an Indian weightlifter. He competed in the men's bantamweight event at the 1956 Summer Olympics.
Valluri Srinivasa Rao
Valluri Srinivasa Rao (born 20 October 1981) is an Indian weightlifter from Andhra Pradesh. He had won the national championship several times. He works in the Corps of Electronic and Mechanical Engineering of the Indian Army.
Vandna Gupta
Vandna Gupta (born 17 December 1994) is an Indian weightlifter who placed fourth in the women's 63 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow. Vandana Gupta is from Lucknow and married Sandeep Tomar on 28 February 2017.
Venkat Rahul Ragala
Ragala Venkat Rahul (born 16 March 1997) is an Indian weightlifter who won the gold medal in the men's 85 kg weight class at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast, Australia.
Vicky Batta
Vicky Batta (born 1981) is an Indian weightlifter. He won the silver medal in the men's 56 kg class at the 2006 Commonwealth Games. He failed a drug test in 2007.
Vikas Thakur
Vikas Thakur (born 14 November 1993) is an Indian weightlifter from Hamirpur (Himachal Pradesh) who won silver in the men's 85 kg weight class at the 2014 Commonwealth Games at Glasgow, Scotland. He won a bronze in the 94 kg weight class at the 2018 Commonwealth Games in The Gold Coast. He won the silver medal in the men's 96 kg event at the 2022 Commonwealth Games held in Birmingham, England.
Yumnam Chanu
Yumnam Renu Bala Chanu (born 2 October 1986) is an Indian weightlifter, hailing from Kyamgei Mayai Leikai village located near Imphal, Manipur. She secured a gold medal in the Women's 58 kg category at the 2006 Commonwealth Games.