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Lifting bronze worth its weight in gold

eSports, badminton also add medals to Thai haul in Hangzhou

Start of a new era?: Thai weightlifter Thanyathon Sukcharoen is in action in the women’s 49kg division in Hangzhou on Saturday. (Reuters photo)

Thai weightlifter Thanyathon Sukcharoen finished third in the women’s 49kg class at the Hangzhou Asian Games in China on Saturday.

While she only claimed a bronze, the medal should help elevate the image of Thailand after a spate of doping allegations and subsequent bans.

Thanyathon lifted 90kg in snatch and 109kg in clean and jerk for a total of 199kg, good enough to seal…

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