Winning with weights

Chennai | Saturday | 14th December, 2019

Summary:

Well, that would be the difference between a normal person and a gold medallist in the World Kettlebell Championship 2019. A sport that is steadily growing in India and up for Olympic consideration in 2020, Kettlebell lifting combines strength and endurance with colour-coded kettlebell weights ranging from 8 kg to 32 kg. Vignesh, who had scored his first competitive gold medal for Kettlebell lifting at the Asia Kettlebell Championships in 2018, came across the activity five years ago through a workshop. “My main event is the Biathlon which is a two-part event with 10 minutes in each segment. I was able to complete a total of 154 repetitions combined and this guaranteed me the first place,” he says..