Mabia Akhter Simanto, who disappointed with her performance in Birmingham on Monday, was happy herself as she expressed in her reaction after the competition after managing to lift 78 Kg in her 64kg weight category on Monday at the at the National Exhibition Centre (NEC of Birmingham).
Mabia, when put across her reaction at the NEC, said, “Today there was very high level performance here, I could not expect that I could present perform so good performances after practicing myself, it was very short period training and physically I was unfit. I think I could do the performance what I did last time.”
“Yes, I get support from all quarters but the training period should for long time for better result. There should have four or five years’ term training plan for the high standard and high ranked performers, then we can hope to win medal. Actually no competitor wants to back with empty hands, everyone expects to win medal but for this they should be prepared on that ways,” said the number one lifter of the country.
It is reality that it would be too much to expect gold medal even any medals from Bangladeshi athletes in the Commonwealth Games but usually there have some goal to participate in the excellent competitions.
All expect a respectable result from the participants (athletes) that they would score better than their previous competitions, which would boost up them to win gold in the regional games (SA Games).
But the performances of swimmers just dampened the spirits when rather than improving their performances they failed to remain at their own mark, though weightlifter Mabia did her best in the commonwealth Games in her category (64 Kg).
However, the performances of weightlifter Mabia, who won gold in the last SA Games, could not perform anything imposing that tone with the expectation, as there was high hope with the lifter that she would win medal.
But Mabia failed to impress despite lifting her career best in snatch when she lift 78 Kg in snatch and in the clean and jerk she lift 103 Kg and she managed eighth place out 12 after lifting a total of 181 kg.
