Ravi Kumar Katulu

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Ravi Kumar Katulu
Berhampur, Odisha, India
Sport
Country India
SportWeightlifting
Medal record
Representing  India
Men's weightlifting
Commonwealth Games
Gold medal – first place 2010 Delhi 69 kg
Silver medal – second place 2014 Glasgow 77 kg
Asian Weightlifting Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2011 Tongling 69 kg
Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Penang 69 kg

Ravi Kumar Katulu (also Katulu Ravi Kumar, born 24 April 1988) is an Indian weightlifter from Odisha.[1] At the 2010 Commonwealth Games, he won a gold medal in the Men's 69 kg (152 lb) weightlifting category.[2]

K. Ravi Kumar hails from

Commonwealth games
, and won with a record total of 321 kg (708 lb).

K. Ravi Kumar won many State, National, and International awards in this short span of time. He won 3 gold medals in 2009

Clean and Jerk for a total of 321 kg (708 lb) in the 69 kg weightlifting category. In 2011, he won 3 bronze medals in senior weightlifting championship at Tongling, China. He also won 3 gold medals in senior weightlifting championship held at Bangalore. K. Ravi Kumar now works with Indian Army.[3]

He competed for India at the 2012 Summer Olympics,[4] and won a silver at the 2014 Commonwealth Games in the 69 kg division. His lifts were 142 kg in the snatch and 17h kg in the clean and jerk for a total of 317 kg.[5] He came in second to fellow Indian weightlifter Sathish Sivalingam, who set a new Games record to win.[6]

References

  1. ^ "Ravi Kumar Katulu". Orisports. Retrieved 15 November 2023.
  2. ^ S. Sabanayakan. Ravi Kumar, Renu Bala win India's first golds.
  3. Rajiv Gandhi Khel Ratna award by Smt. Pratibha Patil, the Hon'ble President of India. [dead link
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  4. ^ "Ravi Kumar Katulu Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  5. ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Men's 77kg Group A". g2014results.thecgf.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 July 2017.
  6. ^ "Glasgow 2014 - Men's 77kg Group A". g2014results.thecgf.com. Retrieved 24 July 2017.

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