Hrudananda Das made Odisha proud by winning one gold and one silver medal, along with a National record in the IWLF National Youth, Junior & Senior Weightlifting Championship at Rainbow International School in Nagrata Bagwan, Himachal Pradesh today.
A promising international lifter from Dhenkanal district, Hrudananda bagged the gold and silver in 81 kg youth boys and junior men categories respectively with efforts of 132 kg in snatch and 170 kg in clean & jerk for a total of 302 kg. He set the National record in youth clean & jerk and total.
Hrudananda is a trainee at the Dhenkanal Sub-Centre of the Odisha Weightlifting High Performance Centre, and takes coaching from Gopal Krushna Das. He has boosted his career profile with three international and four national medals so far.