Ragala Venkat Rahul Height, Weight, Age, Girlfriend, Family, Biography & More 2024

Some Lesser Known Facts About Ragala Venkat Rahul

• Ragala Venkat Rahul is an Indian weightlifter who booked a ticket for the 2022 Commonwealth Games in June 2022.

• He was born and introduced up in Stuartpuram, Guntur district, Andhra Pradesh, India.

• In the ’90s, his father, who himself is a sportsperson, enrolled Ragala and his brother in a sports activities college in Hakimpet, Telangana, the place they studied until the third customary. Later, his father collected Rs 25 lakh and shifted to Hyderabad alongside along with his family. In an interview, his father talked in regards to the potential of his sons to grow to be completed sportspersons and stated,
  

  I at all times believed within the potential of my sons and know that they are going to win medals within the Commonwealth Games. Though I’m a sportsman myself, I by no means acquired any encouragement, and that made me decided to coach my sons.’’

• Ragala acquired his coaching in weightlifting from Telangana State Sports School.

• In 2012, he received his first worldwide medal, a gold, on the Youth Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship, held in Samoa.

• In 2013, he received gold at Asian Youth Games within the 77 kg Men’s weightlifting class.

• In 2014, he received gold on the Asian Youth (YOG Qualification) & Junior Championships within the 77 kg class. In the identical yr, he received silver at Summer Youth Olympics.

• In 2015, he began working as a ‘ticket collector’ at Secunderabad Railway Station.

• In 2015, 2017, and 2019, he received silver, gold, and silver respectively on the Commonwealth Weightlifting Championships.

• In 2017, his brother, Kunal Varun, received gold on the Australian Weightlifting Championship within the 77kg class. Kunal has received greater than 60 medals in weightlifting, and Chief Minister N. Chandrababu Naidu as soon as gifted him a money prize of Rs 25 lakh.

• In 2018, he received gold on the Commonwealth Games, held in Gold Coast, Australia within the 85kg class; he lifted 338 kg (151 kg +187 kg) to attain this feat. In an interview, he gave credit score to his mother and father and his coach for this achievement and stated,
  

  They labored very exhausting for me and they’re the explanation for what I’m at this time. My coaches additionally supported me quite a bit.”

• After the 2018 Commonwealth Games, he suffered a minor knee damage following which he needed to preserve himself away from weightlifting for seven months. Reportedly, he spent Rs 5 lakh to get better from the damage, and after his restoration, he received a medal on the Inter-Railway Championship.

• In 2019, he received silver on the Commonwealth Senior Championships within the 89kg class; he lifted 325 kg in whole (145 kg snatch, and 180 kg clear & jerk).

• Rahul has acquired a tattoo of his mother and father inked on his chest. In an interview, he talked about this tattoo and stated,
  

  My mom handed away two years in the past and I acquired this tattoo two months after her loss. It is my method of exhibiting my love for them.”