Powerlifting Results

Powerlifting - Record Breaking Performance by BITSians...4 golds, 3 silvers won.

Here are the results:

Below 62 kgs:
Gold- Sahil Sharma aka Arnold (BITS)
Silver-Rajat Batra(BITS)

62-69 kgs
Gold-Siddhartha Sankar Sahu(BITS)
Silver-Mithil Aggarwal(MNIT)

69-77 kgs
Gold-Nitesh Goswami aka Saboo (BITS)
Silver-Manish(BITS)

77-86kgs
Gold-Venkat Rao(BITS)
Silver-Pradeep Lamba(MNIT)

86 above
Gold-Dinesh(Zakir Hussain)
Silver-Ankush(BITS)

Congratulations to all the winners!

Powerlifting

Continuting with our round of captains' interviews, BEP met up with Siddhartha Sankar Sahu, the powerlifting and bodybuilding captain who appeared upbeat about the team’s prospects during this BOSM. He gave us a brief insight into the team which consists of 14 members including 2^nd, 3^rd and 4^th yearites. The captain complained that the event did not attract much attention from the BITSians even after the stupendous show last year where their medals tally was second only to that of the swimming team. The powerlifting team won 3 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze last year fending off tough competition from SASTRA, DU and perennial rivals MNIT, Jaipur. This BOSM holds a special place for the team as this is the first time that weights conforming to international standards will be used in BOSM. The regular two-day event is being scaled up to a full-fledged 3 day event. The team boasts of its edge over other competitors in deadlift and bench-press. The success in MNIT Sports Meet does speak volumes about their proficiency.

The captain hinted that the unavailability of proper time slot for practise does have a negative influence in the team’s progress and interests. As suggested by the captain, the university should step in and ensure that BOSM elevates to the same level as OASIS and APOGEE.