Pakistan's emerging weightlifter, Rabia Shahzad clinches gold at Hampshire Weightlifting Championship 2019
Among several participating weightlifters, Rabia Shahzad of Pakistan grabbed a gold medal for the country in Hampshire Weightlifting Championship 2019 which successfully concluded in England.
Pakistan's very own woman weightlifter, Rabia Shahzad was up against eight weightlifters from other nations in the Female Weight Category competition of 49 KG.
21 years old, Rabia, traveled to Basingstoke to participate in Hampshire Weightlifting Championship where the competition was held on the basis of Sinclair points — awarded after calculating the athlete’s weight with the total weight they lift during the competition — where the young and much talented, weightlfter, Rabia outscored her all of the eight opponents to grab on gold with 144.48 Sinclair points.
Rabia lifted the weights of 40 KG in Snatch and 52 KG in Clean & Jerk to earn the top position in the group of nine weightlifters.
After recording her spectacular triumph, she expressed her contentment saying,
“It was a different experience for me; events in the UK are usually held on the basis of Sinclair points instead of different weight categories and I am happy to be winning the gold medal here. I earned 144.48 points while the second-position athlete had got around 144 points, so it was a narrow win and a good competition.”
