Kunja moves up to fourth

Kunjarani Devi was today awarded the fourth position in place of Aye Khine Nan of Myanmar, who returned a positive drug test, in the women’s 48kg weightlifting event of the competition held on Saturday.

Kunjarani, who had lifted 190kg (82.5 + 107.5) to tie with Khine, had ended up fifth because of a higher bodyweight. The Indian weighed 47.78kg while the Myanmar lifter was 47.48kg.

International Weightlifting Federation confirmed that Kunjarani got elevated by one position after the International Olympic Committee pronounced 27-year-old Khine guilty of using an anabolic steroid. Khine said she had been