which weightlifter recently won India's first gold medal at 2018 youth Olympic games?
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Q. Which weightlifter recently won India's first gold medal at 2018 Youth Olympic Games?
Answer : Option (c) Jeremy Lalrinnunga
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-- India won their first gold medal at the 2018 Youth Olympic Games with weightlifter Jeremy Lalrinnunga, also a world youth silver-medallist, lifted a combined weight of (124kg snatch + 150kg clean & j.erk) 274kg, claiming the top honours in the men's 62kg category. This is India’s first-ever gold medal at the Youth Olympics.
-- Jeremy Lalrinnunga was born on October 26, 2002 in the state capital of Mizoram i.e. Aizawal.
-- On saturtday, The Indian Olympic Association announced that Jeremy Lalrinnunga also will be India’s flag bearer at the closing ceremony of the Summer Youth Olympics.
-- In 2016, he also created a new national record in patna at the sub-junior nationals with a lifting of 90kg in snatch and 108kg in clean and j.erk with his weightlifting.
Jeremy Lalrinnunga lifted an aggregate of 274kgs to win the gold medal in Men's 62kg Group An occasion of weightlifting to sack India's first gold at the Youth Olympics in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Lalrinnunga put up a massive effort to scoop the gold as he lifted 150kgs in his last endeavor in the quick lift round to record an aggregate of 274 kgs.
In the snatch round, Lalrinnunga has lifted 120kgs in his first endeavor and then lifted 124kgs in the third endeavor in the wake of having failed int the second.