Mohamed younes

Ajaya Babu Valluri: Ajaya Babu Valluri, a Commonwealth champion, finished 16th in the men’s 79kg category at the 2025 World Weightlifting Championships here on Tuesday.

Competing in Group C, the 20-year-old Indian weightlifter lifted a total weight of 323kg (146kg in the snatch and 177kg in the clean and jerk), finishing 16th out of 39 competitors.

The performance fell 12kg short of his gold medal-winning total of 335kg (152kg + 183kg) at the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships in Ahmedabad this August. His result from the championships in Ahmedabad had helped him secure his place in next year’s Commonwealth Games in Glasgow.