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At the 2000 Summer Olympics, Karnam Malleswari won a bronze medal becoming the.
* N Kunjarani Devi narrowly missed out on a medal when she finished fourth in the 48kg category at the Athens Olympics in 2004.
Current coach N Kunjarani Devi holds the record (190kg), which she created during the 2004 Athens Olympics.

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Tough task ahead for men's hockey team

BANGKOK, Dec 7 (PTI) — Can India pull off once again what it did 32 years ago in this very "City of Angels" for its lone Asian Games men’s hockey gold so far?

With a poor track record in the immediate past and no new faces to inject fresh ideas, the Indian team has quite a job on its hands in the men’s hockey tournament at the 13th edition of the Asian Games starting here tomorrow.

Asian hockey is no longer an easy scene for one to dominate with the emergence of South Korea as a major power breaking the stranglehold enjoyed down the years by Pakistan and India, and, with its ability to spring a surprise or two, Malaysia is always there causing sleepless nights to the major players.

In the Utrecht World Cup in May this year, India went down 3-4 to Korea, with whom they are grouped here too, in a pool match and then crashed to a 1-4 defeat against Canada. India had lost to Korea in the play-off match of Atlanta Olympics also two years ago.

The seemingly never-ending tale of Indian hockey reverses continued as I

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Two more Indian weightlifters qualify for Rio

Indian weightlifters earned two more quota places for the Rio Olympics - one each in the men's and women's sections - following their performances in the recently-concluded Senior Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan.

Indian women lifters collected 100 points and stood third, while the men earned 129 points and finished sixth in the Championships. As a result, India earned two berths for the Rio Games in August.

The Indian Weightlifting Federation (IWLF) will hold trials across all weight divisions to select two lifters - one man and one woman - to represent the country at the Olympics.

"We have secured two quota places, one each in men's and women's categories. Now we will be holding trials to select the best two lifters who will represent India at the Rio Games," IWLF vice-president Sahdev Yadav told PTI.

"We will give our lifters some time to recover and then we will decide on a date to hold the trials. Only those training in the national camps are eligible to take part in the trials. Besides that, we will consider just